Re: Re: 5250 Client Software in Linux

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:16:26AM -0500, Rich Duzenbury wrote:
> I have an old D-04 that is in the same boat.
>
> I hate to admit it, but I have an Windows NT 3.51 server ($$$) running SNA
> Server  ($$$).  The SNA server has a twinax card to talk to the AS/400, and
> an ethernet card to talk to the workstations and printers.  I use NS/Elite
> for the client software (again, $$$).  I believe that a maximum of seven
> sessions can be started.  I have not seen a similar kind of solution that
> runs on Linux, and would not expect to given the fact that this is early
> 90's technology.

There is a linux-sna project about, but it has been an on-again off-again
thing as far as I can tell.  I've been waiting for it to get to the point
that I can write drivers for emulator cards, so I can then write a tn5250
module for it, but I haven't heard anything from Mike Madore (the person
who started this project and was working on the linux-sna project).

Last I heard it was alpha-quality software.

Mike, any comments?

>
>
> At 04:44 PM 10/4/01, James Rich wrote:
> >On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Rosewood wrote:
> >
> > > I just despise the though of having a windows server!
>

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice