Re: TN5250 problem

On Thu, 27 May 2010, John Aldrich wrote:

Ok, I finally decided to give the .tn5250rc file a try. It works, but just
as well as specifying the IP address in the launcher. What difference does
it make, if any, whether I just specify the IP address or the name of the
AS/400?

Another poster earlier responded with this:

The "env.DEVNAME" is the name of your session on the AS/400. The
"+local_print_key" enables your "Print Screen" key on your keyboard so
you do screen prints. The "+uninhibited"... uh, does something that
I've completely forgotten :-) I'm sure somebody will pipe up and tell
you what it does.

You'll notice my second session also has the "env.TERM = IBM-3477-FC"
entry. This tells xt5250 that I'm wanting a 132-column display instead
of the default 80-column.

That ought to do it for you.

James Rich has written some documentation that you might find helpful as
well (and I'm sure it tells you what the "uninhibited" option does):
http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/tn5250-HOWTO.pdf

This points out that there are are several options that you can specify in .tn5250rc that would be cumbersome to specify evey time on the command line. Of course you can specify every option on the command line, but keeping them in .tn5250rc simplifies things and make it easy to see just what options your session starts with. Using .tn5250rc isn't required, but it sure is nice.

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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