jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (01/19/89)
We recently received a request from a customer for a termcap entry which supports the IBM 3270 terminal. This is out of my field, so I am tossing it to the net. Does anybody have a termcap entry which would support this terminal? Is this even possible? Thanks. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Beware: The light at the end of the Intelligent Software Products, Inc. tunnel may be an oncoming dragon 19 Virginia Ave. ...uunet!ispi!jbayer Rockville Centre, NY 11570 (516) 766-2867 jbayer@ispi
zdenko@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Zdenko Tomasic) (01/20/89)
In article <419@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes: >We recently received a request from a customer for a termcap entry which >supports the IBM 3270 terminal. This is out of my field, so I am >tossing it to the net. Does anybody have a termcap entry which would >support this terminal? Is this even possible? > >Thanks. > > >JB >-- >Jonathan Bayer Beware: The light at the end of the >Intelligent Software Products, Inc. tunnel may be an oncoming dragon >19 Virginia Ave. ...uunet!ispi!jbayer >Rockville Centre, NY 11570 (516) 766-2867 jbayer@ispi Termcap entry may not be very useful since 3270 cannot use cbreak and raw mode, I believe. However, there is a utility tn3270 under 4.3bsd which might be of use. (man -k 3270 gives the folowing) : map3270 (5) - database for mapping ascii keystrokes into IBM 3270 keys mset (1) - retrieve ASCII to IBM 3270 keyboard map tn3270 (1) - full-screen remote login to IBM VM/CMS I have not used it however, but you might want to check it out. -- Zdenko Tomasic UWM, Chem. Dept. P.O. Box 413
steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey) (01/20/89)
In article <479@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> zdenko@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Zdenko Tomasic) writes: >In article <419@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes: >>[he wants IBM 3270 termcap] >>JB > >Termcap entry may not be very useful since 3270 cannot use cbreak >and raw mode, I believe. I'll second that belief. >However, there is a utility tn3270 under >4.3bsd which might be of use. (man -k 3270 gives the folowing) : > >map3270 (5) - database for mapping ascii keystrokes into IBM 3270 keys >mset (1) - retrieve ASCII to IBM 3270 keyboard map >tn3270 (1) - full-screen remote login to IBM VM/CMS Yep, mapping FROM whatever you already have TO IBM 3270. What the IBM folks want goes in the opposite direction, and it's just not there. In my limited experience, a 3270 is virtually useless on a unix machine unless all you want is a dumb terminal. The line-oriented nature of the 3270 just does not lend itself to such applications as one normally uses in the unix environment. Not to mention the potential hassle of EBCDIC/ASCII conversion. (carets, square brackets, etc.) Even when unix runs on IBM machines, the terminal of choice is an ASCII terminal. Sigh. >Zdenko Tomasic Steve Dempsey, Center for Computer Assisted Engineering Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 +1 303 491 0630 INET: steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu, dempsey@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu UUCP: boulder!ccncsu!longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu!steved, ...!ncar!handel!dempsey
guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) (01/21/89)
>>We recently received a request from a customer for a termcap entry which >>supports the IBM 3270 terminal. >However, there is a utility tn3270 under 4.3bsd which might be of use. "tn3270" doesn't let IBM 3270s access UNIX, which is, I presume, what the person who asked the question had in mind; it lets UNIX systems access hosts that expect IBM 3270s to telnet into them - it's basically a TELNET program and a 3270 emulator wrapped into one. To quote from the 4.3-tahoe man page (which, if you take it literally, implies that if you actually *have* a Tahoe - CCI Power 6/32 and OEMmed versions and derivatives thereof - it won't work, which is, I presume, not true): "Tn3270" permits a full-screen, full-duplex connection from a VAX UNIX machine to an IBM machine running VM/CMS giving the appearance of being logged in directly to the remote machine on an IBM 3270 terminal.
tmcclory@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM (Thomas.J.Tom.McClory) (01/23/89)
Does anyone have any pointers to a good IBM 3270 terminal emulation test suite. You know, something that will just trash a poor 3270 emulator :-). Both commercial or PD products are ok. I assume such a program would be IBM host based, but I would be glad to consider other configurations. Thanks in advance. -- Thomas J. McClory phone: (513)445-6819 Engineering & Manufacturing-Dayton email: tmcclory@dayton.NCR.COM NCR Corporation EMD/3 Dayton, OH