Re: TCP/IP Connection software

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Glad to hear there are better things than what I saw. But I'm not on Linux
at the moment, either. Did you say there is a port for Windows?

I must have tried 4 or 5 free to $75 products that I found, doing a Google
on, I think, TN5250. None of them gave me what I really needed, which is
powerful macro capability. I use them all the time - save me lots of time.

For what I needed, Rumba didn't have it. I've used it a number of times
before. Good product, all the way from Wall Data days. But there were no
"Wait" statements that I was able to use for some of my macro work. Oh,
well. Went with what I knew for a quick solution to my problem at the time.

Thanks again.

Vern

At 07:43 PM 3/14/02 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
>
> > As aomeone else said, free and cheaper TN5250 products don't usually have
> > the nice printing. If they do, it's usually LPD, and I like the
> > CA/PCOMM/Rumba/etc. printer sessions better-all 400 printer attributes are
> > retained, where LPD can't do that.
>
>Ouch, that hurts :)  If by "nice printing" you mean supporting IPDS then
>yes, I think you are correct.  But if you use SCS then the linux5250
>package does very well.  It can use lpr, but doesn't have to.  It is very
>simple to set up, too (and for me is far less troublesome to configure
>than client access).  The only thing it doesn't support at this time is
>changing CPI in the middle of a report.
>
>James Rich
>james@eaerich.com
>
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