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- About 5PM…
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- Copyright © 1991, 1992, Advanced Software Concepts S.A.
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- 5PM Presentation :
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- Developed by Advanced Software Concepts, 5PM is a communications package fully
- compatible with Apple's Communications Toolbox (i.e. using connection, terminal,
- and file transfer tools). 5PM allows simultaneous sessions to different hosts systems.
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- In addition to standard terminal emulation, 5PM contains four major aspects :
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- • Scripting langage (HyperTalk compatible with support for most XCMD and XFCN)
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- • User-configurable palettes:
- create your own working tools in the shape of buttons or other graphic
- objects, with fully mouse-activated powerful scripts.
- These features (read/write to the terminal stream, search for specific
- character strings, and more) are available in any of the workmodes.
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- • Vamping or Front-Ending tools (i.e. give a host application a Mac
- interface without altering the Host application itself), see the IBM filing
- system as the Finder would show it, without changing the host system
- software; "re-vamp" your existing mainframe applications without changing
- the existing code; cheaper, safer, faster…
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- • Esmeralda : an implementation of the Apple Terminal Services® protocol,
- in a superset of MacWorkStation, a collaborative processing architecture
- where the graphic user interface is fully mainframe driven.
- The host application (written in any language capable of writing to a
- terminal console) sends character string commands which cause the Macintosh
- to display graphic objects (windows, dialogs, controls, text edit items) to
- handle both data display and input, with the possibility of handling many
- input control functions locally, thus relieving the mainframe application and
- reducing network load.
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- The addition of all these features allows the 5PM application to swap
- transparently and automatically from terminal emulation, to vamping or
- MacWorkStation mode, depending on the data exchanged between the
- Host and 5PM. It is a powerful environment to use existing mainframe
- applications without loosing the comfort of the Macintosh GUI.
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