Re: 5250 & 3270 together?

IBM's Client Access/400 5250 emulator came from their 3270 emulator.

Chuck Landress

Mike Madore wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In addition to the tn5250d, I am getting ready to work on a tn3270d
> server.  Since so much work has been done already on the tn5250 project, I
> was wondering if would be worth leveraging by trying to accomodate both
> 5250 and 3270 datastreams in one library.  Or perhaps two libaries that
> shared a lower level library for handling I/O, telnet negotiation, etc...
>
> What are the pros and cons of doing this?  I don't want to re-invent the
> wheel and have to maintain two code bases, but I also don't want the
> 5250 code to become awkward to maintain.
>
> Mike Madore
>
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