Re: Re: 5250 Client Software in Linux

I know Jay (of Linux-SNA) is quite busy at his new job, so I don't know
how much time he has had to work on it lately.  When I was last
involved, which was about a year ago, things were still very much under
heavy development.

Mike

Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice wrote:
>
> 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?
>