Re: taroon] Telnet & 3270 emulation

[R P Herrold <herrold owlriver com>]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Shaw, Marco wrote:

> I really don't understand the whole '3270 emulation' bit. 
> I think I am searching for a telnet program that supports 
> 3270...

x3270 works fine.  Its sources are around forever, in SRPM 
form, and packages up easily if one feels a need for the 
latest and greatest.  It may have dropped out of the RH line 
at some point, as I pulled a copy for building purposes on 
some other platform back in 2002.
   ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/x3270/
In doing a test build just now of that SRPM file on a CentOS 
41 box (a RHEL rebuild project), it builds fine, save a stale 
unpackaged 'desktop link'.  Trivial to update. [this file is 
part of a superceded approach to X-desktop management]

I have used both the X and the text console variants without 
any problem.

A screenshot, probably dating back to a RHL 7.3 X-client 
connecting downstream, displayed on a RHL 9 X-server (I see 
that the browser is a Netscape variant at the bottom of the 
screenshot) is at:
   http://www.herrold.com/x3270.png

-- Russ Herrold