Re: TN5250 problem

On Mon, 17 May 2010, John Aldrich wrote:

Sweet! There's been times when I've hit the wrong key in the "official"
client on my Windows box and it will freeze up until I hit the CTL key. :-)
I assume that means I wouldn't have to do that?

Correct.

What I ended up doing was putting the host name of the AS/400 system in the
command-line for the shortcut and putting that host name along with the IP
address in /etc/hosts.

Any reason to create a TN5250.RC file?

I would definitely create the tn5250rc file, it makes many things a lot easier. Please read the HOWTO for details, but the quick answer is that the tn5250rc file sets the options that control how your session works. This file is usually kept in your home directory and is named .tn5250rc not TN5250.RC (note the leading "."). You can work without the tn5250rc file but that means you have to specify every option on the command line.

As far as I'm aware, there are only two options available in the latest version of tn5250 that are not documented in the HOWTO. Those two options are +destructive_backspace and +uninhibited. The latter we have already discussed. The former should be pretty obvious as to its purpose.

James Rich

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the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
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