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From: John Taylor
I don't want to fork this thread into another 5250 vs GUI debate ...
Too late. The OP asked for a 5250 solution and a bunch of us have already suggested alternatives ranging from Linux (text based), to browser based thin clients, to fat (rich) Windows based clients & servers.
I followed up on a few of the links to 5250 based email solutions and found that they actually offered more than I expected. Address books, mail folders, automatic word wrap, spell check, attachments, spool files, etc. A 5250 client would be hard pressed to implement drag & drop, but there would be no problem organizing and maintaining database tables, IFS directories, and stream files.
If the OP wanted to build his own 5250 interface, there were also links to a number of relevant articles, and IBM i servers, and open-source solutions that could be used and integrated.
So it seems to come down to such things as drag & drop and GUI fonts, vs. 25 X 80 text-based screens. I suppose some would argue the merits of local composition & storage of messages.
Nathan.
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