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DEVELOPER INFOMATION
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If you are a developer, there are several points for you to
hook in.
The most obvious area where a programmer could control ZOC is
the REXX programming language. It is very powerful and allows
access to many areas of ZOC.
Windows Version only: The REXX processor was licensed from Enterprise
Alternatives, Inc. and is available as a separate product. If you
want to use REXX for Windows scripting, please contact Enterprise
Alternatives for details (see order section of the ZOC help menu).
If you want ZOC to act as a background communication server you
can use DDE. DDE is described in the Online Help (Help->Contents->
Programming ZOC) and you can get a sample DDE client (C source
code) from EmTec's ftp server (see www.emtec.com). Via DDE you have
access to all features that can be controlled by REXX. Based on
ZOC DDE, it is rather easy to build Front-Ends for character based
online databases, be it that they are accessed by modem, ISDN,
Internet or LAN.
Also, the most ambitious developers can under certain circumstances
get access to the specs that are used to implement emulations, I/O
devices and file transfer protocols.
Last but not least, if you have an existing phone book from another
comm program that is not supported by ZOCs import module, and if you
like to program an import function in C, please contact EmTec for
sample source code and other information.