My company is migrating to a new accounting system fromone with a text based
interface than emulates the "green screen" terminals to a system that has the
Explorer as its interface. I write macros that retrive information or repeat
tasks in the old system. Is there a way to enter keystrokes into a web page
so that I can get the information out of the new server. I do not want to
avoid the security by accessing the tables dirrectly. If it is complicated
is there a book that discusses what I would need to know?

There are a number of prgrams that record key strokes and play them back.

They are ok for experienced users but sometimes are tempramental.

Do a serch for key stroke programs on winsite or simtel.

Hi SWSmith,

SWSmith via OfficeKB.com wrote:
My company is migrating to a new accounting system fromone with a
text based interface than emulates the "green screen" terminals to a
system that has the Explorer as its interface. I write macros that
retrive information or repeat tasks in the old system. Is there a
way to enter keystrokes into a web page so that I can get the
information out of the new server. I do not want to avoid the
security by accessing the tables dirrectly. If it is complicated is
there a book that discusses what I would need to know?

You can do this through the XMLHTTP object, but it's not always easy. Look
here for some examples/discussion (watch URL wrap):

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q...=2005&safe=off

--
Regards,

Jake Marx
www.longhead.com


[please keep replies in the newsgroup - email address unmonitored]