From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2004-01-14T05:20:49+09:00
Subject: [Fwd: [support - Help] Terminal Emulation with IBM / S 390.]

Hello all -

Received this message on the RubyForge support project forums; if anyone
is familiar with the things Vidya is discussing, please consider posting
a reply to him...

Thanks,

Tom

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> From: noreply@rubyforge.org
> To: noreply@rubyforge.org
> Subject: [support - Help] Terminal Emulation with IBM / S 390.
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:04:17 -0500
> 
> 
> Read and respond to this message at: 
> http://rubyforge.org/forum/message.php?msg_id=822
> By: vidiv
> 
> Hi All, 
> 
> I am a student-newbie to RubyForge (and Ruby language & CVS) working on a project
> for Terminal Emulation. The dumb terminal interacts with an IBM mainframe through
> a 'multiplexer-MUX'.
> The s/w is currently running in 'C' on a Windows NT environment and the requirement
> is to introduce Object Oriented concepts and C++ was the obvious choice, but
> i came across  'Ruby' (and also Perl, Python,...etc) after i installed RH8 on
> my PC last month. We are actively canvassing the advantages of GNU s/w and philosophy
> and would like to simultaneously port it to GNU/Linux platform.
> 
> I have read some of the documentation in Ruby.
> Before using Ruby as our project language it would be useful to know whether
> Ruby has functions, libraries/headers (like C does) capable of handling the
> foll. :
> 
> 1] open and close serial ports,
> 2] set baud rates,
> 3] check parity bit/byte,
> 4] stop bits,
> 5] Hardware handshaking,
> 6] selection of port,......
> 
> Our existing 'C' code is to be ported to the GNU/Linux platform so we are actively
> looking at an OOP concept. The part for serial port communication in C++ has
> classes so its easier to write customized programs to do most of the above.
> Also compatibility with the existing Multiplexer and Cisco Routers is most important
> as the company will not make any H/W changes.
> 
> We saw that python has some routines for using existing C code so we dont have
> to rewrite everything and can make modules containing functions and use it to
> operate on files. Does Ruby have any such features. The documentation does not
> provide deeper details so it would be nice if anyone could throw some light
> on some of the above issues.
> 
> Thankyou for your time.
> 
> Ciao, 
> Vidya.
> 
> 
> 
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