> Subject: VRf: Supported platforms, etc.?
> Author: Non-HP-potts (potts@GDEsystems.com) at HP-USA/o2=mimegw3
> Date: 7/10/97 11:28 AM
>
>
> I was tasked today with working on a presentation we are preparing for
> Hughes Space Communications in El Segundo, CA. We are attempting to
> define what role we, as System Integrators, can play in providing
> centralized control for their test systems and subsystems.
>
> The overall goal is to have a Test Executive running on a Host platform
> (most likely a DEC Alpha running Digital UNIX 4.0), which provides a
> User front-end and Developer toolkit for command and control of test
> systems via Ethernet. The test systems (& subsystems) would excercise
> direct comannd and control of instrumentation and Units Under Test via
> VXI, GPIB, etc.
>
> Several questions were raised with regard to our potential use of
> VEE as the Test Executive.
>
Why limit VEE to the test executive? VEE may be very useful within the
test systems & subsystems as well.
> 1. Is Digital UNIX 4.0, running on a DEC Alpha workstation, a supported
> platform for VEE and, if so, what version(s) is (are) supported?
>
No Digital UNIX support at this time. Maybe the lab will respond
with futures.
> 2. Does VEE 4.x continue to support calls to external programs (AND
> shell scripts) as well as function calls to DLLs on Windows platforms
> and shared libraries on (supported) UNIX platforms AND?
>
Yes. The HP VEE Advanced Programming Techniques manual (E2110-90051)
table of contents includes the following: (additional topics and
subtopics removed for brevity.)
Creating a Compiled Function (UNIX)
Creating a Dynamic Link Library (MS Windows)
Using DLL Functions in Formula Objects
About ActiveX Controls
Communicating with Programs (UNIX)
Execute Program (UNIX)
HP BASIC/UX Objects (HP-UX)
Communicating with Programs (PC)
Execute Program (PC)
Using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLL)
> 3. With regard to networking, what level of support does VEE 4.x offer
> for sockets, named pipes, and RPCs?
>
Again from the HP VEE Advanced Programming Techniques manual:
To/From Socket
To/From Named Pipe (UNIX)
About Remote Functions
About Callable VEE
About the VEE RPC API
> Could you please pass the above questions to the appropriate respondents
> and keep me informed of when I might expect a response. Also, wherever a
> WWW page, white paper, book, or manual addresses one or more of these
> issues, please attach an appropriate link, copy, reference or pointer.
> My target date for a complete write-up is next Wednesday, so I really
> need to have these, as well as any follow-up, questions dealt with by
> the end of this week. Obviously turn-around time is critical. As a
> consequence, could you please provide information on how to contact the
> appropriate respondent for each question by phone and e-mail. This will
> greatly facilitate my efforts to include VEE as part of our proposal.
>
Good Luck!
> Thanks for any help and support that you can offer in this excercise.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> John Potts: potts@GDEsystems.com
> phone: (619) 675-5774, fax: (619) 675-1999
> GDE Systems Inc., 16550 W. Bernardo Dr., MZ: 1681-S, SanDiego, CA 92123
> "Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as
> one goes on." --> Samuel Butler
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Author: Non-HP-potts (potts@GDEsystems.com) at HP-USA/o2=mimegw3
> Date: 7/10/97 11:28 AM
>
>
> I was tasked today with working on a presentation we are preparing for
> Hughes Space Communications in El Segundo, CA. We are attempting to
> define what role we, as System Integrators, can play in providing
> centralized control for their test systems and subsystems.
>
> The overall goal is to have a Test Executive running on a Host platform
> (most likely a DEC Alpha running Digital UNIX 4.0), which provides a
> User front-end and Developer toolkit for command and control of test
> systems via Ethernet. The test systems (& subsystems) would excercise
> direct comannd and control of instrumentation and Units Under Test via
> VXI, GPIB, etc.
>
> Several questions were raised with regard to our potential use of
> VEE as the Test Executive.
>
Why limit VEE to the test executive? VEE may be very useful within the
test systems & subsystems as well.
> 1. Is Digital UNIX 4.0, running on a DEC Alpha workstation, a supported
> platform for VEE and, if so, what version(s) is (are) supported?
>
No Digital UNIX support at this time. Maybe the lab will respond
with futures.
> 2. Does VEE 4.x continue to support calls to external programs (AND
> shell scripts) as well as function calls to DLLs on Windows platforms
> and shared libraries on (supported) UNIX platforms AND?
>
Yes. The HP VEE Advanced Programming Techniques manual (E2110-90051)
table of contents includes the following: (additional topics and
subtopics removed for brevity.)
Creating a Compiled Function (UNIX)
Creating a Dynamic Link Library (MS Windows)
Using DLL Functions in Formula Objects
About ActiveX Controls
Communicating with Programs (UNIX)
Execute Program (UNIX)
HP BASIC/UX Objects (HP-UX)
Communicating with Programs (PC)
Execute Program (PC)
Using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLL)
> 3. With regard to networking, what level of support does VEE 4.x offer
> for sockets, named pipes, and RPCs?
>
Again from the HP VEE Advanced Programming Techniques manual:
To/From Socket
To/From Named Pipe (UNIX)
About Remote Functions
About Callable VEE
About the VEE RPC API
> Could you please pass the above questions to the appropriate respondents
> and keep me informed of when I might expect a response. Also, wherever a
> WWW page, white paper, book, or manual addresses one or more of these
> issues, please attach an appropriate link, copy, reference or pointer.
> My target date for a complete write-up is next Wednesday, so I really
> need to have these, as well as any follow-up, questions dealt with by
> the end of this week. Obviously turn-around time is critical. As a
> consequence, could you please provide information on how to contact the
> appropriate respondent for each question by phone and e-mail. This will
> greatly facilitate my efforts to include VEE as part of our proposal.
>
Good Luck!
> Thanks for any help and support that you can offer in this excercise.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> John Potts: potts@GDEsystems.com
> phone: (619) 675-5774, fax: (619) 675-1999
> GDE Systems Inc., 16550 W. Bernardo Dr., MZ: 1681-S, SanDiego, CA 92123
> "Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as
> one goes on." --> Samuel Butler
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hughes Space Communications in El Segundo, CA. We are attempting to
define what role we, as System Integrators, can play in providing
centralized control for their test systems and subsystems.
The overall goal is to have a Test Executive running on a Host platform
(most likely a DEC Alpha running Digital UNIX 4.0), which provides a
User front-end and Developer toolkit for command and control of test
systems via Ethernet. The test systems (& subsystems) would excercise
direct comannd and control of instrumentation and Units Under Test via
VXI, GPIB, etc.
Several questions were raised with regard to our potential use of
VEE as the Test Executive.
1. Is Digital UNIX 4.0, running on a DEC Alpha workstation, a supported
platform for VEE and, if so, what version(s) is (are) supported?
2. Does VEE 4.x continue to support calls to external programs (AND
shell scripts) as well as function calls to DLLs on Windows platforms
and shared libraries on (supported) UNIX platforms AND?
3. With regard to networking, what level of support does VEE 4.x offer
for sockets, named pipes, and RPCs?
Could you please pass the above questions to the appropriate respondents
and keep me informed of when I might expect a response. Also, wherever a
WWW page, white paper, book, or manual addresses one or more of these
issues, please attach an appropriate link, copy, reference or pointer.
My target date for a complete write-up is next Wednesday, so I really
need to have these, as well as any follow-up, questions dealt with by
the end of this week. Obviously turn-around time is critical. As a
consequence, could you please provide information on how to contact the
appropriate respondent for each question by phone and e-mail. This will
greatly facilitate my efforts to include VEE as part of our proposal.
Thanks for any help and support that you can offer in this excercise.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
John Potts: potts@GDEsystems.com
phone: (619) 675-5774, fax: (619) 675-1999
GDE Systems Inc., 16550 W. Bernardo Dr., MZ: 1681-S, SanDiego, CA 92123
"Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as
one goes on." --> Samuel Butler
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