Re: Config & Gnome (Was Re: Working lp5250d...)

[Mike Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

> Unless there are any objections, particularly from Mike Madore, I'm going to 
>pull
> Gnome
> 5250 into the tn5250 CVS tree so that changes won't get "lost."  If it is 
>still
> buggy (I cleaned
> it up a bit last night, have to test better), I'll have it disabled by 
>default.

No objections here.  I've been focused on writing SNA apps at the moment,
but I've got some bug fixes to put into CVS myself.  Hopefully this
weekend.

> The third piece of code is a contribution both Mike and I received which did 
>a lot
> of Windows NT
> portability, and implemented a bunch of features which would allow the 5250 
>code
> to be used
> server-side instead of client-side.   The server-side stuff was written to 
>allow a
> third-party
> product (an AS/400 environment?) to serve 5250 connections...  I'm not sure 
>how
> far a jump it
> will be from the code in this patch to a tn5250d 
>program/environment/API/whatever,
> but it is
> a _big_ step in that direction.

I need this for the 5250 gateway, so If you want me to take a crack at it
first, I would have to do it anyway. 

Mike

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