Re: Windoze "Terminal" as 5250 Display Session

At 07:22 PM 1/20/98 -0500, Dean Asmussen wrote:
>I have a new consultant at my primary client that connected to her last
>client's /400 via the "Terminal" program in Windows.  She admits that she
>doesn't know much about how it worked, other than the fact that the F-Keys had
>to be re-mapped and were still a pain to use.  She's tried to connect to the
>current client (via ASCII workstation controller) using both the same
>methodology and a "free-ware" TN5250 product, to no avail.  Does anyone know
>how she might have done this originally?  Personally, I couldn't imagine how
>"Terminal" could have worked in the first place...

Dean,

Terminal will do VT100 emulation. I've done it, but it's not pretty. According 
to my recollection, you need to use Alt Esc U (three separate keystrokes) for 
roll up, Alt Esc D for roll down, Alt Esc R for reset, Alt Esc A for attention, 
to name a few. Depending on the modem on the other end, you may have to lock 
the baud rate to match it, and you might need to suppress error correction 
and/or compression. She's right. It's a pain to use.

hth
Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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