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

Is /usr/local/bin in your path?

Mike

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Joco Mendes wrote:

> 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

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