The Remote Command protocol is used to execute a command on a
server and return the output of that command to the client. This is
most commonly used with UNIX based servers, although there are
implementations of remote command servers for the Windows operating
system. The control supports both the rcmd and rshell remote
execution protocols and provides functions which can be used to
search the data stream for specific sequences of characters. This
makes it extremely easy to write Windows applications which serve
as light-weight client interfaces to commands being executed on a
UNIX server or another Windows system. The control can also be used
to establish a remote terminal session using the rlogin protocol,
which is similar to how the Telnet protocol functions.
This ActiveX control is supported on Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. If you
are using Windows 2000, it is required that you have Service Pack
(SP4) installed. If you are using Windows XP, it is required that
you have at least Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed and it is
recommended that you install Internet Explorer 7.0. It is also
recommended that all critical updates to the Windows operating
system be installed.
The SocketTools Visual Edition components are compatible with
any development tool that fully supports COM (Component Object
Model) and the ActiveX control specification. This includes Visual
Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual
Studio 2008. If you are using Visual Basic 6.0 or Visual C++ 6.0,
it is required that you have Service Pack 6 (SP6) installed. If you
are using Visual Studio .NET 2003 or Visual Studio 2005, it is
recommended that you install Service Pack 1 (SP1). In all cases, it
is recommended that you have the current updates for your
development tools installed.