Re: Just a thank you note.

On Tuesday, November 20, 2001, at 04:06  PM, Scott Klement wrote:

>
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Myles Toomey wrote:
>>
>> Just managed to download and install tn5250 on a Mac OSX (10.1, Darwin
>> 1.4) machine. It is working. I wish to thank those responsible, and
>> offer my assistance in any way possible to those involved in the
>> effort.
>> Thanks again
>>
>
> The best thing that you can do to help would be to assist us in making
> the product fully-functional under MacOS X (Since I have no Mac to try
> it on...)
>
I'd be happy to, if you will excuse my cluelessness, and can work around
my ignorance.
> Work with us to put full support into the source distribution, including
> a reasonable keyboard map, etc.

Sure. The only problem there is that i am working off a note book and do
not have a full size keyboard.
Tell me what to do and I shall go for it....
I already am having a problem with the F12 key, as the same key is used
to pop the CD player, and it does not seem to be sending to the screen
at all. Not a tn5250 problem, I understand. I'll check on the apple page.

The other issue I noticed in tn5250 (as opposed to xt5250, see below) is
that something was up with my F14 key. I went into an old version of
BPCS which requires that you press F14 to get off the splash screen.
While <esc> 3 worked as f3, and <esc>-^ (shifted 6) worked as f18 in
pdm, the 400 did not seem to recognise f14 when on the BPCS splash
screen. What am I doing wrong?

the process i went through to install was -
get Xdarwin from XonX and install it
get xfree86 from sourceforge and install it.
get ncurses from sourceforge and install it
get tn5250.....

I seem to recall that ncurses wanted X11R6 for some reason, but i may be
wrong....


>
>>
>> Off to find out about terminfo/termcap to try and make the xt5250 work
>>
>
> Actually, you may not need to change termcap/terminfo to make
> xt5250 work :)
>
> Try this:
>
>    1) Edit /usr/local/bin/xt5250
>    2) Go down to the bottom of the file.  One of the last lines
>          contains the phrase "-tn xterm-5250".
>    3) Change it to read "-tn xterm-color"
>    4) Save the changes.
>
> Now try running xt5250.   Does it work?

It worked fine. thanks
>
> The only problem that I know of with this method is that "back-tab"
> doesn't seem to work.  Other than that, the termcap entry is
> pointless...
>
> (It's still important for console-mode, however)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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