Gilmore Remote API™
for Clipper is the only commercially-available library with a
full set of functions for background remote control support. Now you can
offer your customers convenience and superior support with the ability
to control your Clipper applications over a standard RS-232 line -- via
modem or direct connects up to 115K baud! -- at a fraction of the cost
of memory-resident remote control applications.
If you are familiar with other resident remote support packages,
you will appreciate the freedom to eliminate other costly resident
software and the freedom to customize your applications with the control
features you want:
Low memory overhead; needs <9K of memory for code and data.
Freedom to distribute as many copies of your application linked
with remote support without paying any more. Ever.
Easy to add with only 2 function calls needed for total remote
communications.
Nothing for your clients to set up or learn!
Troubleshoot and debug client applications over the phone: view
error logs and replicate keystrokes to uncover bugs.
Write any app you want to run remote and never connect to a
modem until it's debugged to your satisfaction!
No-work file transfers.
Full DOS prompt access using RUN.
Secure. Unique serial number coded in to each library.
Save money by having your clients pay for their support calls.
Freedom to modify/translate our Clipper source for any international
location.
With Clipper applications needing more memory than ever before,
other support packages can rob too much memory to even run your
system. Gilmore Remote API adds a minuscule 9K of code, linked right
in, so it peacefully coexists with Clipper, your network shell and
many other memory resident programs
Remote debugging with Clipper's full screen debugger.
Debug your applications by having one computer send automated
keystrokes to the other.
Remote data base server.
Background mail server embedded in your application.
Automatic authorization system.
Write a message center for your clients that works just like
the application you wrote for them.
Remote order entry system.
BBS / information center with CUA menus, full screen editing,
field input with on-line data validation.
With Gilmore Remote API, files can be sent and received
unattended by writing simple Clipper code. This is useful for automatic
updates, bulletins, documents, mail, voice mail, images, FAXes,
etc..
Remote API works in the background by hooking into the com port
and timer tick interrupts. The screens are sent out the com port by
comparing the current display screen with a copy of the previous screen.
Thus, only changes are sent out. Remote API also compresses the changes
into smaller data packets. It is important to know that Remote API
is NOT tied to Clipper's video driver in any way. You can use all
the third party products just fine.