RE: Linux Client emulator

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's been stable for me.

The display sessions are very stable, the trick is getting the keyboard
map set up.  There can be a bit of a learning curve on that part.

The printer sessions without host print transform are very basic, and may
not support everything you want them to.   But, when using host print
transform, all the work is done on the iSeries, which makes the printer
support quite full-featured.

I'm using it with serial printers in my production environment.  We've got
about 25 printers controlled by 3 PCs.   (Using Cyclades multi-serial port
cards, we're able to connect many printers up to one PC) The output from
the printer software is fed to a pipe, and you can set the "output
command" to whatever you like...   Normally tell it to pipe it's output
to lpr (the printer requestor used on most Linux and Unix systems) but
you can change it to go wherever you like...   I guess the point I'm
making here is that if you can print from any Linux program to your serial
printer, then the TN5250 printer support will also work.

As to stability of the lp5250d (5250 printer daemon) under Linux...  it's
stable enough for me.  Once in awhile the user will have to run a script
to restart it...  but they had to restart the twinax printers that it
replaced as well, so I don't know who to blame :)

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, [iso-8859-1] Emilio Padilla - Sistemática Int. wrote:
>
> How stable is TN5250, enough to put it on production?  I have to change 200
> + PC that with DOS and PC Support (I know they is real old and I should put
> the m in a nursery home or something), but the PC's still doing their job
> the way it should and they are stable as h*** :-). Actually we are changing
> them because we can't get parts for them anymore(they are mostly Pentium and
> 486's with 16 Mb RAM and 20GB disks) and I'm not to eager to move them into
> windows.
>