RE: 5250 e-mail reader

Scott Klement wrote:

> It seems to me that the screen-at-a-time nature of 5250 would
> make it a
> very difficult task to port Lynx to the AS/400.
>
> If you started from scratch, you'd almost have to use a user-defined
> display file and send the 5250 codes yourself in order to get the
> flexibility you'd need...

Surely the thing to do would be to run it in QSHELL, since that's an
approximation of a Unix environment?  That would handle the
line-at-a-time scrolling issues.

Cheers,

Martin.

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