RE: Re: GCIC Fullscreen applications - Update

kerravon86-/[email protected] wrote

>> I will be starting a new project- to move the
>> editor ... to MVS 3.8 next week.
Snip.....
>Yes, I have a suggestion. Since you're working
>so close to the metal anyway, how about supporting
>PDOS as well?
>
>Currently PDOS users can only do things like
>"dir" and run some line-mode C programs.
>
snip.......
>


>What support services do you actually need
>from the OS to make that happen (ie what will
>you need from TSO? And what do you get from
>VM currently?)
>
>BFN. Paul.
>
>

Paul - I havent started yet so I can only tell you what I Plan.

Basically it will be a TSO Command processor.
Actually two of them

1) the editor
2) Ind$file compatible routine

So the minimum I would need is the TSO Command line - Nothing more.
But that would not be very friendly.

It would mean that you would have to type something like:
REDIT Myuser.cntl.lib(autoexec) in the best case

I know there are a few user interfaces available which give something like
ISPF screens and if we could integrate with them then you would just have to
type ROCED or something on the line. Similar to the way FLIST or ISPF option
3.4 works,
Of course that means that the new command processor would have to be
integrated in the existing interface. Not sure how doable that is.
Not sure how available these interfaces are and what is involved in setting
them up.

I'd like to integrate both functions into something that already exists.
But that is down the road.

Right now I'll just do the editor and decide later how to wrap it.


Another possibility is that I do something similar to 3.4 as I did in VM.
Where I wrote a minimal FLIST type screen and entered the editor from there.

But first things first - and the first thing is to get the editor and the
IND$FILE working

Roc