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I apologize if this is a stupid question, but I am in dire need of
advice.

I have an application, written in visual basic, which serves to receive
data over a TCP/IP connection, process the data and generate html
documents, all while sitting on the server hosting those same pages.  It
turns out that the server is unix, and when I try and execute my .exe, I
get garble.  How can I fix this?  I've heard about windows shells, but
am very unclear if this will solve anything.

Should I translate the vb to perl?  or seek out an NT server?  is there
a shell which will allow my .exe to run on unix?  any ideas?

thank you in advance,
gregori

yes.

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   >I have an application, written in visual basic, which serves to
   >receive data over a TCP/IP connection, process the data and
   >generate html documents, all while sitting on the server hosting
   >those same pages.  It turns out that the server is unix, and when I
   >try and execute my .exe, I get garble.  How can I fix this?  I've
   >heard about windows shells, but am very unclear if this will solve
   >anything.
What do you mean by garble?  Does the program run at all?  I would think
not, but exactly what happens?

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Ah, Gregori -- the only stupid question is the question unasked...

UNIX and Microsoft Windows are two completely different critters -- like
Macs and PCs.

A "quick" solution would be to run your VB app on an NT server.

Another idea might be to have the VB app run on it's own Windows PC where it
"ftps" or otherwise copies the HTMLs it generates to the UNIX server as
necessary.  This solution keeps you from having to create a new NT box to
replace the Unix box.

Hope this helps...

Jim Cambron

Quote:> I apologize if this is a stupid question, but I am in dire need of
> advice.

> I have an application, written in visual basic, which serves to receive
> data over a TCP/IP connection, process the data and generate html
> documents, all while sitting on the server hosting those same pages.  It
> turns out that the server is unix, and when I try and execute my .exe, I
> get garble.  How can I fix this?  I've heard about windows shells, but
> am very unclear if this will solve anything.

> Should I translate the vb to perl?  or seek out an NT server?  is there
> a shell which will allow my .exe to run on unix?  any ideas?

> thank you in advance,
> gregori