Looking for web based app

[Jim Gillem]

Hello all:

This may be in the wrong area but it involves DOS and the web.

Anyone out in the Pb-Dos world know of any web apps that will let
me upload an active list of things (ftp?) to a site that will
allow several remote users to log in and see what is in stock
at any one of a dozen or so actual locations logged at our
central (home grown erp) system.

The remote user then grabs (shopping cart?) the item & qty
needed and this should reduce the count in the central system,
Somehow.

The pb dos "inventory" should be active / alive and web aware.
(downloads every __ so ofter or when a web trigger is active
that denotes a need to refresh the main file in the central
PB dos system.

Or: inner branch transfer somehow that lets the location that
has the item know to ship to the remote user somehow.

A potential joint venture ?

This could be a real the power app linkage my customers have been
looking for. The linkage from a PB-Dos app to the web and back
seems like a need to fill (Henry Kaiser once said).

Thanks

Jim Gillem

[email protected]



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[Lance Edmonds]

Sounds like a job for a Windows app, rather than a DOS app, especially since dealing with TCP/IP communications is VASTLY easier in Windows than DOS.

That said, there is a TCP library in the FILES section at http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/pbdos/inet -- you'll still need to install and configure a TCP stack for the DOS copde to work though. (Ugh!)

However, for a simple FTP transfer, you might try using the FTP.EXE app installed with Windows.

The shopping-cart app is another aspect altogether, and using CGI applications is a common solution and you can write these with PB/DOS... there are some CGI routines (server-side for a Windows-based server such as IIS) in the same FILES location.

Good luck!



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[Thomas Gohel]

On 06 Dec 02, in article "Looking for web based app", Jim Gillem wrote:

Hello Jim,

> Anyone out in the Pb-Dos world know of any web apps that will let
> me upload an active list of things (ftp?)

Search the web for:

PPPD for DOS 0.5 alpha, (c) 1997 Antonio Lopez Molero

and:

NOS by KA9Q

JNOS version 1.11a (8088)
by Johan. K. Reinalda, WG7J/PA3DIS
and James P. Dugal, N5KNX
Copyright 1991 by Phil Karn (KA9Q) and contributors.

330640 jnos> ?

Main commands:
               !              abort          arp            at
attach         bootp          cd             close          cls
copy           disconnect     dir            delete         detach
domain         dump           echo           eol            exit
rexit          finger         fkey           ftp            ftype
help           history        hop            hostname       icmp
ifconfig       info           index          ip             isat
kick           log            mail           memory         mkdir
more           motd           multitask      param          pause
ping           pkstat         prompt         ps             pwd
rdate          record         remark         rename         reset
rewrite        rmdir          route          session        shell
skick          socket         source         status         tcp
tail           taillog        telnet         trace          strace
udp            upload         watchdog       write          ?

Regards,

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[Matthew Berg]

Anyone out in the Pb-Dos world know of any web apps that will let me upload an active list of things (ftp?) to a site

Also take a look at FDISK.COM.

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