These are Unisys proprietary interfaces which are supplied primarily for communication with legacy clients. A client program is supplied for each interface with the Runtime installation. They each use their own specific protocol to communicate between the client and server. The three client programs take either individual lines from the standard input or complete files of data.
NOF — The Non-Formatted Input/Output (NOF.exe) interface enables an external program to send NOF input to, and receive standard output from, your application.
OFF — The Offline input client program (OFF.exe) is used to load OFF data into a target application. OFF only transfers input, the protocol does not support output
GLI — The Generalized Interface (GLI.exe) facility provides a GLI interface into an application.
The use of each of these protocols is described in the following subsections.
The following syntax is used to invoke the interfaces:
<prog>.exe --view[<viewname>] [<input>]
Note: --view can be replaced with —v.
Where:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| <prog> | Either NOF, GLI, or OFF depending on the type of packets you are sending. |
| <viewname> | The view with which you want to connect. |
| <input> | Command line input that is read by <prog>.exe. It is possible to pipe a file containing NOF, OFF, or GLI data |