Re: thinknic

[Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jason M. Felice" wrote:

> > I'm a little stuck on where to put the .tn5250rc though.  I'm guessing
> > I can add it to the flashupgrade.tar in the web subdirectory.
> 
> Hmm, I don't know where the home directories are, but tn5250 also reads
> /etc/tn5250rc if it exists.  This seems to be the right place for any
> configuration on the nic.  Configuration that shouldn't change, anyway.
> I don't know about the flash.

I believe that when the GUI loads, the user is "web" with a home
directory of /flash/web
 
> > and it will work.  Does it pick up any settings if I haven't specified a
> 
> Just add the settings to the tn5250rc file, e.g.
> 
> # my rc file
> env.TERM=IBM-xxxx

Great!  Thanks.

> > I'll post my results as I get them.
> >
> Please do.  Is python on that CD?  Is there enough room for it?

I tried to document every change I made, mainly so I could remember... 
I tossed it onto http://linux.porterfield.net/nic.html (I know it's not
well organised...)  I also put the iso image I made, as well as links to
www.thinknic.com (but don't waste your time with that iso since tn5250
doesn't work from it yet. :)

I don't see python on it.  There is a lot of free space on the CD; no
problem there.  (The iso image is less than 200MB right now.)

I hope to take another wack at it this weekend.  I need to change the
XTerm anyway...  Most users will expect ESC to be ATTN and Shift-ESC to
be SysRq, and I didn't think to make it do that.
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