Re: [LINUX5250] Update to Windows Binary Dist

[Dietmar.Buerkle@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hello everybody

First of all thank you all for tn5250. I realy like it. Here
are two annotations on the windows version to make it even better:

When I tried the first Version of tn5250-0_16_3w-setup.exe
(map=273) I thought my umlauts (non ASCII-Characters) are broken.
As the Problem remained when I got the 2nd version I did some
further investigation. It seems that tn5250 on my Windows uses
the "Terminal" font as default. As Terminal is not based on
cp125x but on a DOS-Codepage, all your fancy EBCDIC to cp125x
magic gets broken. It took me quite a while to realize what the
problem is.

Is there a way to prevent tn5250 from using Terminal as default
(at least if ccsid 37 is not used)? I know now that I MUST set
a font, but someone just trying tn5250 (and not using an
command line option) would think it is still to bugy to use
(This was my first impression too).


There is a second (minor) problem:
When I use
     tn5250 font_80="Courier New" font_132="Courier New" +resize_fonts
as400name
and maximize the window, only a vew pixels of the last line
are visible (using 1024x768).


Dietmar