Pragma's wrapper program enables character or console based programs, that have difficulty running in a telnet or terminal session, to run in WIndows. Wrapper will ONLY work with Pragma TelnetServer or TerminalServer products and the version shipped with Version 4.0 and later will NOT work with previous versions.
Our tests show any character/console program that fails to run within a Pragma Server session will be able to be run via the supplied wrap.exe executable. Always choose full console mode when logging into a Pragma Server if you want to run programs with the wrapper, except for Computer Associate Upfront customers, who should read the special notes below.
The following example shows Ingres cmd tools , nt resource kit's vi
editor, and pmon invocations via the wrapper (wrap.exe) program.
wrap isql
wrap fstm.exe -sql mydatabase
wrap myingresapplic
wrap vi myfile.c
wrap \ntreskit\vi.exe myfile.c
wrap pmon.exe
wrap \ntreskit\pmon.exe
wrap or wrap /? provides the usage, build number and expiration date if an evaluation version is being used.
Computer Associate Upfront product user Information.
Upfront in Windows needs CA's patch 4733 or later to run properly in
Windows. This is not due to any need of Pragma's software.
Turn on the Ask for Console Mode prompt for each
user using Upfront.
To run Upfront's TERM_INGRES=m0 MWS programs with
one of Pragma's Servers, you MUST type "no" when the
question is asked whether you want full console support. This gives
you stream mode, which makes the MWS programs run in gui mode over a
session. Stream mode is also called simple mode by other vendors.
To make wrapper programs run, you should choose "yes" when full console support question is asked. This means, you need two different sessions into an NT machine, one with stream mode running ABF programs in MWS mode; another with full console mode running ABF programs with Pragma's wrap.exe over a session.