Re: thinknic

[Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jason M. Felice" wrote:
> 
> Sean Porterfield wrote:
> 
> > Anyone have any luck getting tn5250 on a NIC?  (
> > http://www.thinknic.com/ )
> >
> > I'm thinking about getting some and wondered if it was feasable.
> 
> We got one, and I've played around with it a bit.  It would require
> burning a new CD for it to boot from.  This
> is certainly feasible.  It just a matter of determining what versions of
> stuff they're using on the CD

I have my NIC, but haven't done anything to change the config yet.

FYI, a list of everything on the CD is at
http://www.thinknic.com/about/gpl.html so you don't have to guess (and
you can download the iso image of the cd!)

Just to verify - is ncurses 4 required for tn5250, or will it work with
5?  And does it need a real xterm?

Seems that those are the only real problems (other than configuration
options.)  I was thinking of finding out how they store the TCP/IP and
printer config and copying the idea to store tn5250 config.  Somehow
it's on flash.  The version number of the cd is stored somewhere too, so
to get certain changes, you need to update the version number (I forget
where I read that now.)
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