Re: 5250 & 3270 together?

The functions necessary to support the two datastreams are very similar,
and the command sequences are also very similar.  I would think that
with sufficient generalizations for screen buffer updates, you would 
be able to fit 3270 datastream parsing into the 5250 datastream processor.

Bill Suetholz

On 27-May-2000 Chuck Landress wrote:
> 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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