RE: [TCLUG:14591] Business/accounting software

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

The Other Carl wrote:

> anyone seen Appgen's product?

We use Appgen at Trimodal Inc. for Accounts Receivable.  It handles about
10,000 transactions a month for us and is very customizable.  The Appgen
PowerWindows terminal emulator provides some point-n-click functions, but is
overpriced($300!) and only runs under Windows, though I've had some luck
using it with Wine.  You can run everything from a regular vt100, wy60,
ansi, etc. terminal too.  They support most Unix versions and Linux.

Printing through a dumb-terminal connection goes to Unix printers set up in
a user's .profile file.  Printing through the PowerWindows client can go to
either Unix or Windows printers.  It's a small pain to deal with changing
people's .profile files but that's about all I can complain about relating
to printing.

>         it uses telnet to access the server; but there's only one Windows
> terminal emulator that i've found, which will do the necessary SCOANSI
> emulation (TinyTerm; which is anything but tiny). :( and that one is only
> now coming out with SSH support. the telnet client is also not cheap ($99
> per seat).

Have you tried ICE.TCP or ICE.TCP.PRO?  They support SCO ANSI very well.  We
use them in-house for the non-Appgen stuff.

--
Carl Patten
I.T. Manager (got promoted!)
Trimodal Inc.