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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.
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. Via DDE you have access to all features that
you could 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.