Does anybody have experience with connecting Clippership to Baan?

They want me to transfer an existing Clippership <-> AS400 connection to Baan. I barely know what the program does. lol

Any information will be appreciated.

Francesco,

I do not know clippership too. But I had a email from one BaaN customer who asked for ideas and help.

Here is that old email, I think you can use the BaaN Socket functions to replace them or else make use of the better socket/ port programming features from "C" language and interface with BaaN Application.


Well Prashanth, I´ll try to explain it in english, We are a Sugar manufacturing company in Venezuela South America, we use scales TOLEDO in order to weight sugar cane and white
sugar trucks.

Now we have a simple Clipper application to read data transmited from scales TOLEDO (Com1 and Com2) and creates files in separate directory through commands like COM_OPEN(), COM_INIT(), COM_READ(), COM_COUNT(), it work
good,BaaN session checks that directory and gets value in file .TXT and after calculate prices, quantities, etc,. We want to get that value directly running a Baan session. (We want to eliminate Clipper in our organization).

We use 2400 bauds, 7 bits data lenght and 1 stop bit, to initialize
ports.

Thanks for your attention.
In touch.
Jim.


You can look into the BaaN help manual for the socket functions-
http://www.baanboard.com/programmers_manual_baanerp_help_functions_interprocess_communication_cross_platform_sock_accept

I am not quite clear if clipper and clippership is one and the same or not... :(

Clipper is well known to us old farts in the programming business. It was quite a neat DB development tool at the time. I believe (but I am not sure) that it has gone up in Borland. I don't know if it still exists as Clipper.

Clippership I believe is a VB application, so that wouldn't match. However, the description in your email fits clippership. It produces shipping labels and information 'of the scale' and links currently to an AS400 machine running a program called Mozart.

I am tasked with linking Clippership to Baan, but I don't even know where to start. We have no in-house knowledge left of the application and so far, nobody I have talked to seems to understand the full picture either.

I did however get a phone number at Kewill in the mean time (owners of Clippership Software) and as soon as we are done playing phone tag, I should know a little more about what I am up against.