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Subject: Re: Wang Infosharer

Posted By: Thomas Junker
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In Response To: Wang Infosharer (Visitor)

Subject: Re: Wang Infosharer

Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 22:43:51 +0800

At 13:03 5/06/97 -0500, Thomas Junker wrote:

> On 5 Jun 97 at 23:22, xxxx wrote:
>
> > DO you know if InfoSharer is workable on W95 and if it
> > is does it require a certain version and installation
> > procedure.
> > Or perhaps more importantly is there a product the
> > supercecedes InfoSharer that ebables data transfer
> > between the
> > VS and PC operating systems?

I think, but don't know, that InfoSharer is an obsolete product. You should call Wang and ask. I do know that there are newer products, though I've always found Wang's manner of configuring product offerings confusing -- it's never one product, it's a product that requires two or three other products. They have something called VS PC LAN Connection or something like that, that supports all kinds of data transfer and exchange.

There's also third party stuff from SBA (now a division of Sentinel), DPZ and Lightspeed. Data transfer is possible via the 928 coax connection and Winloc, and also over LAN and over async terminal emulation.

Maybe the most exciting thing, though, is that Wang's VS TCP/IP actually works. I've been using it on some larger VS systems, and it has an ftp server that can queue and resend failed transfers, that appears like any unix system when you call it from an ftp client. It also has outbound and inbound telnet, very good API's for writing TCP/IP applications, and I've even gone so far as to put together a proof-of-concept VS web server that handles HTML, graphic, CGI and VS print files. From the outside, using Netscape or MS IE, you can't tell it's a VS.

> > I would appreciate any comment as I agree with your page comments
> > about the viability of the VS range but am finding it
> > increasingly difficult to disuade my managers that we should
> > change to an open system approach. If I can solve this transfer
> > problem it will give my arguments more substance and the legacy
> > systems we use on the VS can survive a little bit longer.

The biggest problem in using systems like the VS is that once they are viewed as "old" or out of fashion, no one wants to "spend any money" on them, so new or upgraded software is not acquired and outrageous bargains in the used equipment market are totally ignored -- a really self-defeating approach. File bbs0/10 modified

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