Re: Windoze "Terminal" as 5250 Display Session

At 07:22 PM 1/20/98 EST, DAsmussen wrote:
>I have a new consultant at my primary client that connected to her last
>client's /400 via the "Terminal" program in Windows.  She admits that she
>doesn't know much about how it worked, other than the fact that the F-Keys
had
>to be re-mapped and were still a pain to use.  She's tried to connect to the
>current client (via ASCII workstation controller) using both the same
>methodology and a "free-ware" TN5250 product, to no avail.  Does anyone know
>how she might have done this originally?  Personally, I couldn't imagine how
>"Terminal" could have worked in the first place...

Dean:

TERMINAL is simply a bare-bones VT100 emmulator... it works fine with a
ASCII WSC (I've used it in the past) ... but, as she said, the function
keys are a pain to deal with (although a S/3x veteran would recognize some
of the keystrokes from 5250 terminals ... ESC 1 for Cmd1, ESC dash for
Cmd11, etc.)

TN5250 is a TELNET program and requires TCP/IP to connect... if you setup a
SLIP server on the '400, or had some TCP/IP dialup into a network, it would
work just fine.

HTH

david

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