Hello Forum :

           We have some really elderly providex.dde and providex.ddf files, containing a lot
of our Data Defnitions. When I move these files to the backup server that I am testing
Pxplus V. 1510 on, and attempt to go to Dictionary Maintenance, it comes up with an
error, no doubt due to the fact that the format of the .dde & .ddf files has changed.

            Is there a utility or a command that will bring the many records up to the new
format? I have all of my old Mailing List emails on another machine, and I am sure that
the answer is in there!

            Thanks,
            Bill.

Hello Forum :

      My apologies if this sounds like a newbie question. I am attempting to setup our backup servers for developing GUI versions of our character-based programs. I have modified the iptables on the CentOS server to accept tcp port 4093, and I have issued the command /0/pxp15/pxplus "*plus/cs/host" -arg "4093;recon=300" and the server answers back : Awaiting connect ... When I issue the lsof -i:4093 command, it shows the process listening. Both the server and the client machine are on the same node, so no firewall is blocking the attempt, and we are not using SSL.

[root@ecoback ~]# lsof -i:4093
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
pxplus  12481 root    5u  IPv4 816627      0t0  TCP *:4093 (LISTEN)
[root@ecoback ~]# iptables -L | grep 4093
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:4093

Then, I attempt to connect from an Ubuntu 16.04 workstation running Wine, from a command window, using :

"/home/prog/.wine/drive_c/PVX Plus Technologies/Windx Plugin 2018 Upd 1/pxplus.exe" *plus/cs/client -arg 192.168.150.6;4093

After a brief pause, the message box comes back stating that it cannot connect to 192.168.150.6 on port 4093, and offers to test
connectivity by browsing th http://192.168.150.6:4093. That does not connect either, but we have never allowed http traffic into
the backup server.  Do I have to specify a startup program? If so, does that program need to be resident on the server, or on the client?

Thanks,
Bill.

Hello Forum :

         With Providex Plus version 15.10 running on our CentOS Linux servers, now
we want to start modifying our character-based programs to GUI. When we install
and run the Windx plugin, version 15.10, and we run it, either on Windows, or on
Linux via Wine, the initial screen size is very small. Is there a parameter somewhere
that allows us to have Windx Connect and use more of the available monitor space?

         For example, my desktop monitor is a widescreen 22" model, and my resolution
is set to 1920 x 1080. When I Maximize the Windx window, the portion of the window
containing the telnet session remains the same. Even if I RUN "*nomads", the GUI window
comes up fine, but remains at the very small size relative to the available space on the monitor.
Is there some setting in an .INI file? The edges of the telnet window do not allow clicking and
dragging.

          Thanks,
          Bill.

Hello Forum :

         We have recently installed Pxplus 15 on our CentOS Linux servers.
         All of our programs (still all character-based) are executing properly, so far.
         One odd behaviour is that if a program is sitting at an INPUT statement,
         or even just at a Pxplus prompt, pressing the ESC key, after a brief pause,
         behaves the same as if the user had pressed <Enter>. The program proceeds
         and a CTL value of zero is returned. This did not work exactly the same way in
         Providex 9.10. I checked the manual for System Parameters, but none were 
         specifically related to the ESC key. The keypress does still generate a hex $1B$.

         Is there a way to switch this off? Or is the ESC key needed to exit some GUI routines?

        Thanks,
        Bill.