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Our technical article library provides in-depth technical information on various features and applications of AccuTerm. If you have ideas you would like to contribute to this collection, or have a special topic you would like to see addressed, please send an email to support@asent.com. Code samples which are referred to in these articles may be downloaded from our sample code page.

AccuTerm 2K2 GUI Video Tutorial narrated By Peter Schellenbach

NEW! Learn how to create AccuTerm 2K2 GUI applications by watching this 90 minute narrated tutorial. The tutorial is divided into several lessons, so feel free to watch as time permits. AccuTerm GUI applications are written in MultiValue BASIC so you do not need to learn new languages. AccuTerm GUI applications can take advantage of a large array of GUI objects, including text boxes, list boxes, drop-down lists, check boxes, radio buttons, grids, tabs, menus and toolbars.

Modernizing the User Interface By Peter Schellenbach

New Interactive Technical article describes how to use AccuTerm to modernize the user interface of most Multi-Value applications. Some modifications are relatively simple. Others are more difficult, but produce more spectacular results. If you have an application that needs an updated interface, the time to modernize is now!

Cover Your Assets Using Secure Shell by Joe Goldthwaite

This article describes the benefits of using Secure Shell (ssh) when you need to make a terminal connection over the Internet.

Moving from a Character Based Environment to GUI by Lee Bacall

A very informative article discussing the various strategies of moving your legacy character-based applications to GUI. Strategies include retrofitting existing code, rewriting in Visual Basic, screen-scraping, browser interface and using a GUI-enabled RAD tool.

Using AccuTerm to Automate Mail Merge Between the MV Database and Microsoft Word by Joe Goldthwaite

This article describes the process of using AccuTerm as the link between your MultiValue database and Microsoft Word to perform a mail-merge operation automatically. Sample Pick/BASIC code is provided.

Using AccuTerm to Automate Email by Joe Goldthwaite and Peter Schellenbach

This article describes the process of using AccuTerm as the link between your MultiValue system and Windows based-email clients. Three client architectures are discussed: Outlook, Collaborative Data Objects (CDO) and MAPI. Sample Pick/BASIC code is provided.

Use SSH to Connect to D3/NT by Rich Chesavage of Tower Systems

This article provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a SSH server on Windows and using it to connect to D3/NT. The SSH server used is OpenSSH.