[fa.tcp-ip] IBM block mode tty emulation

milazzo@RICE.EDU (Paul Milazzo) (10/08/85)

    "I believe the remote system should be the guy to do the
    block mode interpretation" - Milo Medin

Milo:

My modifications to 4.2bsd telnet to support 3278 emulation do exactly
that.  When, during option negotiation, the client is asked for its
terminal type, it assumes the server host must be a 370 and replies
that it is an IBM-3278-x, where 'x' depends on the screen size
determined from termcap.  After that it uses the curses library plus
a file containing terminal-specific key bindings to perform 3270
emulation.

My code has only been tested against the WISCNET implementation, though
after a conversation with Lou Rivas I believe it should work with the
UCLA code modulo some tweaking of the option negotiations.

				Paul G. Milazzo
				Dept. of Computer Science
				Rice University, Houston, TX

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