Re: 4GL/GX Questions

In article <266iaaINNkb0@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> rridley@sin-pss.dhl.com (Richard Ridley) writes: >I have a question about 4GL/GX: >From what I can gather, if you have an application written and >compiled using 4GL on a Unix box, and wish to run this on a Windows >PC, you would need the following: > >1. RDS on the Unix box to create p-code. No. The 4GL for Windows product includes the equivalent of fglpc. However, you are correct that p-code created on a Unix box will run on the PC. The p-code is machine independent. >2. 4GL/GX runner on the Windows PC to interpret the p-code. Yes. Although the runner is only one piece of the product. The debugger is also available with lots of gooey stuff to build message files, look up error messages, compile forms, etc. >3. Informix-NET on the Windows PC to connect to the Unix database. Yes, if your database is on the Unix box. No, if your database is on the PC but you would then need SE on the PC. >Is this correct ? Is this all I would need or would I also need SE >on the Windows PC ? See 3 above. > Is there any other way of using Unix >applications from a Windows PC ? I routinely run PCNFS terminal emulation in DOS and Windows. I also run X under Windows using a product called Xvision. Xvision is very impressive. By the way, as a consultant to Informix I have connected 4GL for Windows to the Tuxedo Transaction Monitor product and to Novell's TCP/IP protocol product and they all worked together very nicely. This included creating a very large custom runner. Another nice feature is that User-defined functions are put in a DLL which is used by both the interpreter and the debugger. Scott