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Aaron,

If you are tweaking tn5250j, I hope you are contributing the changes back (I haven't seen you on the mailing list...)

I just spent the day with IzPack, building a new installer jar for the latest tn5250j. I think I'll play with IzPack a little more and see if I can use it to install programs to the i. Something I have needed is a desktop installer for i programs....

Pete

Aaron Bartell wrote:
Even better, tn5250j is open source and isn't insanely hard to figure out how to download and change like other tools have been for me. One thing that drove me nuts is how when I copy something from the tn5250j screen and paste it into another GUI text editor (email, gedit, etc) it would always add an additional crlf which I would inevitably have to hit the delete key a couple of times to get rid of.
I have an article coming out soon on IBMSystemsMag.com showing how to make a modification to tn5250j from start to finish (including downloading Eclipse and pulling the source from the sourceforge.net <http://sourceforge.net> repository). Hopefully tutorials like that will show how simple *some* apps are to modify and subsequently get more people involved in modifying the tool to work out the various bugs.
On a similar note, I have never had to recompile the Linux kernel. I shy away from almost all things that require recompiling unless I REALLY want/need it.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

I've tried IBM's Linux versions several times and it's almost always
given me fits on Fedora. But Fedora is bleeding edge.

I use the TN5250j and it's been terrific, even with the large
number of
versions and releases of the Java VM that I keep switching around on.
Best of all... it let's me map the right ctrl key as enter...
honest-to-god 5250 keyboarding!



On 11/04/2009 05:02 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> I also have used it and still have it installed. I love how
fast it is
> compared to tn5250j, but changing fonts is like pulling teeth.
I changed
> the font one time and since then I can't seem to change it
again. So at
> this point I am just sticking with tn5250j as that has given me
the best
> over-all experience to date.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Brian McKee<map@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:map@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>> On 4-Nov-09, at 3:02 PM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Anybody running the IBM 5250 emulator under Ubuntu?
>>>
>>>
>> Yes - why?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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in her sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in her car."
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