Re: Re: 5250 Client Software in Linux

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:42:43AM -0700, Paul Tykodi wrote:
> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:18:40 -0400
> Hi Jay,
>
> The URL for the document that you require (IBM Specs for twinax emulators
> under Windoze) is listed below:
>
> http://www-4.ibm.com/software/network/pcomm/about/api/twinax.html

Thanks for the link.

Hmm, I just read the entire API in under five minutes.  It's terribly
underwhelming: I'm all of a sudden not so intimidated by these weird Twinax
cards ;-)

This API is a bit Windows-centric, though.

Under Linux, the direct API is going to be reading and writing records from a
character device, but it should be easy to implement this API on top of it,
especially since a lot of the functions look like "pop this flag into a
packet and send it" (SendPrinterStatus, ResetPrinter, SendDisplayData,
SendCursorPosition... all of these are going to be pretty easy).

It also doesn't seem as dependent on the SNA stuff as I might have thought.
I'm going to go looking through linux-sna and discussing with some of
those people and do some research, and unless I find that someone has already
done this for Linux (I highly doubt it), I'm going to start a SourceForge
project.

Anyone who is interested in participating or just being on said mailing list,
drop me a line so I can sign you up when I get some stuff together.

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice

>
> Best Regards,
>
> /Paul
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