Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:3507 comp.sys.ibm.pc:35403 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!mailrus!shadooby!oxtrap!heifetz!hotlips!mreed From: mreed@hotlips.UUCP (Mike Reed) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: PC/HOST connectivity/data passing/HLLAPI/HELP ME!!! Keywords: PC,MAINFRAME Connectivity Message-ID: <247@hotlips.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 17:16:38 GMT Organization: CPHA, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 32 Hello World! I would like to be running an interactive high-level language application on an IBM pc and have the added ability to be connected to a host(DEC,IBM,UNISYS, etc.), flip-flopping back and forth from application to application (hot-key?). Questions: 1. what do I need in terms of hardware or software to be able to have concurrent sessions? 2. how can I pass data back and forth between applications (in both directions)? 3. what is HLLAPI and how can I use it to accomplish this? 4. is there a terminal emulation package available to do this? This is what I need to accomplish: - application A (running on the host) makes a request to application B (running on the PC). - application B searches a database on the hard drive and returns some data to application A as its response. I hope that this is not pie-in-the-sky and that someone out there has a solution for me. By the way, a high level language solution would be preferred. thanx everybody.