RE: ~/.tn5250rc, command-line parsing...

Did you need a little help with my config code stuff ?

Regards

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Madore [mailto:mmadore@mail.turbolinux.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 6:44 AM
>To: LINUX5250@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: ~/.tn5250rc, command-line parsing...
>
>
>Hi Jason,
>
>Sure, do all the cool stuff while I bang my head against the 
>wall chasing
>cursor bugs. ;-)
>
>Seriously, this looks pretty cool.  Pretty soon, people will 
>be switching
>to Linux just so they can dump CA/Rumba and use tn5250. ;-) 
>
>Mike
>
>> Hello everyone.
>> 
>> I've been sitting on this half-finished patch for quite some 
>time, so I've
>> finally bit the bullet, finished it, tested it, and posted 
>it.  It's a big
>> change but the code is pretty clean, so there shouldn't be 
>too many bugs.
>> 
>> The version in CVS now parses some rc files during startup, 
>in this order:
>> 1) $(sysconfdir)/tn5250rc (usually /usr/local/etc/tn5250rc)
>> 2) ~/.tn5250rc
>> 
>> Then procedes to parse the command-line arguments.  The 
>configuration files
>> have the following format:
>> 
>> # This is a comment
>> name = value
>> 
>> # The below is shorthand for 'name = on'
>> +name
>> 
>> # The below is shorthand for 'name = off'
>> -name
>> 
>> # This sets group.name to `on'
>> group.name = on
>> # So does this
>> group {
>>      name = on
>> }
>> # and this
>> +group.name
>> 
>> The command-line options have been melded into this as well, 
>so you can do
>> this:
>> 
>> tn5250 +underscores map=37 localhost:1975
>> 
>> Additionally, this uses all options set within a group:
>> 
>> tn5250 group
>> 
>> This is good for setting up different AS/400 sessions, for 
>example, like this:
>> 
>> AS4001 {
>>   host = as.400.1.com
>>   map = 37
>>   env.TERM = IBM-3812-1
>> }
>> AS4002 {
>>   host = as.400.2.com
>>   map = 284
>>   +underscores
>> }
>> 
>> Then:
>> tn5250 AS4002
>> 
>> You can even do:
>> 
>> tn5250 -underscores AS4002
>> 
>> Here are the currently supported options:
>> 
>> +/-underscores       (old -u option)
>> trace=FILE        (old -t option)
>> host=HOST            (old host parameter.  From the command-line
>>                       'host=' is optional)
>> session=NAME         (old -s option)
>> env.TERM=TERM        (old -y option)
>> +version             (old -V option)
>> +help                (old -h option)
>> 
>> everything in env.* gets sent to the AS400 as an environment 
>string, so now
>> you can specify arbitrary telnet exit strings.
>> 
>> I realize this is a big change, I will back it out of CVS if 
>necessary but I
>> think it's much more flexible and forward-looking a scheme.  
>We now have a
>> vehicle for implementing keyboard mapping (e.g. key.enter = 
>field exit) and
>> lots of odds and ends options (window-title = My AS/400 
>Session) which wouldn't
>> have fit well into the old scheme.  This should also 
>interface very simply
>> with scripting languages such as Perl and Guile when we add 
>support for them.
>> 
>> Please bang on it and make sure that it's stable (I've 
>tested nearly every
>> combination I can think of, but then again...)
>> 
>> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
>> 
>> P.S. This breaks xt5250.  I will fix to-morrow.
>> P.S.S.  It's case sensitive.  I just realized that's 
>probably a bad idea.
>> 
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