RE: Remote site setup

["Cotes, Steven" <cotess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,
Heard this before ?
It depends.

What do you want to do with it ?
If I remember correctly, most WYSE are in the VT100 - 102
family. Messing with the keyboard mapping on a VT* is a pain.
But, if you can get a TN5250 session started on the UNIX
box and the 400 is running TCP/IP, you're most the way
there including the keyboard mapping.

On another hand, you need to look reliability and costs.
What kind of support do they have to keep it running ?
The UNIX box can be an added point of failure and complexity.
Since you present the possibility of replacement, is the
UNIX box being used for anything else ? If not, does
your client have it on maintenance ? New terminals
might cost less then what the UNIX box costs to keep
running.

Don't you hate it when someone answers a simple question
with more questions ?

HTH
 -Steve Cotes
 -cotess@data-io.com

> ----------
> From:         Jeffrey M. Carey[SMTP:jeffreycarey@usa.net]
> Sent:         Friday, November 07, 1997 2:14 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Remote site setup
> 
> We have a client currenty running on a UNIX box with locally attached
> WYSE terminals and a line printer.  Is there an easy way to connect
> this
> equipment to a remote AS/400, or should we just replace it with twinax
> devices?
> 
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