Re: [LINUX5250] 2 questions

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 1 - Can I have tn5250 on a "1 floppy disk Linux solution" ? what do you
> suggest?

I'm not a Linux user.  I've done this in FreeBSD, though...   the floppy
boots up, finds the ethernet card, uses a DHCP client to get an IP address
and starts TN5250.   From the user's perpective, they just put the disk
in the drive and turn the computer on, and they get a sign-on screen...

I would expect that you would be able to do the same thing with Linux?!

>
> 2 - changing text mode: Some of my screens on ibm are 27x132 instead of
> the normal 24x80. on windows, terminal client changed automatically
> between those modes.. is there any way of doing this also automatically
> under text mode on linux?
>

Is there a plain text mode for VGA-compatible hardware that supplies 132
columns?!

If you run the xt5250 script from the graphical mode in Linux, you should
have no problem with 80 to 132 col switching...   you just have to specify
a 132-col terminal type.  For example:   env.TERM=IBM-3477-FC

But, I'm not aware of any way to do 132 columns in text mode...