ALK Technologies - Technology that Drives Transportation - GPS Navigation Evolved

PC*MILER|TCP/IP offers an interface to PC*MILER|Connect running in a Windows environment to an application residing on another platform (e.g. from UNIX to a PC). Through a TCP/IP network, client applications can access a text-based interface to call PC*MILER|Connect's features and functionalities. The interface opens cross platform communications in a thread-safe manner, giving users the flexibility to transmit the output of PC*MILER|Connect to multiple networks within their organization.

In order to run the PC*MILER|TCP/IP Interface, PC*MILER|Connect must be installed. The interface requires a command-line parameter and a unique port number to listen to. (NOTE: ALK does not provide any software for the client (UNIX/VMS etc.) side of the interface.)

To serve as an example of the type of information that the interface provides, the PCMSCalcDistance3( ) function of PC*MILER|Connect returns the distance and time between an origin (orig) and destination (dest) by calculating the route using the given routing type (routeType). In PC*MILER|Connect, the function includes:

long PCMSCalcDistance3 (PCMServerID serv,
const char FAR *orig, const char FAR *dest, in routeType, long *minutes);

Through the PC*MILER|TCP/IP interface, the function includes:

# telnet 127.0.0.1 [Port #] <Enter>
ALK PCMILER SERVER READY
pcmscalcdistance3(08540, "Boston, MA", 1) <Enter>
2897 -- this is distance in tenths of miles
326 -- this is time in minutes

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