gnome-5250 can't find tn5250-config -- LINUX5250

Title: gnome-5250 can't find tn5250-config
Hi,
I tried to install gnome-5250 but it can't find (in ./configure)
tn5250-config, that is in my system in /usr/local/bin. What can I do ?


Thank
Joao Mendes

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 7/20/00, 4:16:24 PM, Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com> wrote
regarding Re: Thanks:


> Hi Joao,

> >
> > P.S. - If you don't want me to mail you directly tell me I will
post
> > this in LINUX5250.
> >

> Please post your requests to LINUX5250, not me directly.  The reason
for
> this is simple...   although I am familiar with tn5250, and will help
you
> whenever I can, there are a lot of things that I _don't_ know.

> Therefore, posting to linux5250 makes more sense.  There are a lot of
> people, and the ones who know the answer to your question can post a
> reply, the ones that don't can learn from your questions & their
answers!

> I'll send a cc: of this message to the list, as well.


> >
> > "Who can I with xt5250 put my sessions in full screen (maximized).
> > When I start a session it only displays in 80x25 (xterm
resolution), I
> > tryed to change the geometri in xt5250 file to 160x50 but when it
> > connect to the AS400 the session get 80x25 again."
> >

> If you truly want "full-screen", why not switch to a console mode
> session, and run tn5250 instead of xt5250?  That'll be a full screen
> session.

> When you say a geometry of 160x50, this means that your xterm will be
160
> columns wide by 50 rows high.  A nice idea, however, the 5250
protocol
> only supports two different terminal sizes, 80x24 and 132x27.  Tn5250
adds
> a status line at the bottom, so the geometry of the xterm session
must
> be either 80x25 or 132x28.  This is a limitation of the AS/400's 5250
> protocol, not a limitation of the tn5250 software.

> What you probably want to do, rather than changing the geometry, is
to
> make the font size larger.  This will force the xterm to take up a
larger
> portion of the screen.

> On my system, I can hold down the ctrl key and right click in my
xt5250
> session, and it'll let me change the font size for that session,
making
> it larger or smaller.

> If you wanted to make that change permanent, you could change the
xt5250
> script, as you suggested, but change the font size, not the geometry.
> (maybe "man xterm" would help you do this, since I dont know the
command
> off the top of my head)

> >
> > By the way who can I download gnome-5250 from CVS?
> >

> similar to getting tn5250 from CVS, except use "checkout gnome-5250",
> like this:

> cvs -d ':pserver:anonymous@cvs.cleveland.lug.net:/tn5250' checkout
gnome-5250

> then:
>     cd gnome-5250
>     ./autogen.sh
>     ./configure
>     make
>     su root
>     make install

> Please be aware that the gnome-5250 (and its accompanying gtk-5250)
aren't
> finished yet.  Not all features on them work at this time.

> Please post followups to linux5250@midrange.com