SRFERGU@ERENJ.BITNET (Scott Ferguson) (01/16/90)
This is kind of goofy, but I'm stuck doing this in some situations: I've got a PS/2 connected to our Company IBM Mainframe, using an IBM 3270 terminal emulator on the PC. Miraculously, the IBM mainframe has TCP/IP functionality (wow!), so I can telnet & ftp from the mainframe to my ethernet nodes. However, the only terminal type supported by the mainframe is IBM 3270 (Now there's the IBM I know and hate!) When I telnet to my machines, I'd like to be able to set my term type, but there's no 3270 entry in termcap. I suspect it may not be possible, since 3270 terminals are kind of fruity anyway, but does anyone have a termcap entry for one of these? Thanks, Scott Ferguson Exxon Research & Engineering Annandale, NJ 08801 (201) 730-2339 SRFERGU@ERENJ.BITNET
dbfunk@ICAEN.UIOWA.EDU (David B Funk) (01/16/90)
in posting <9001151633.AA08859@umix.cc.umich.edu> Scott Ferguson <SRFERGU@ERENJ.BITNET> says: > I've got a PS/2 connected to our Company IBM Mainframe, using an IBM 3270 > terminal emulator on the PC. Miraculously, the IBM mainframe has TCP/IP > functionality (wow!), so I can telnet & ftp from the mainframe to my > ethernet nodes. However, the only terminal type supported by the mainframe > is IBM 3270 (Now there's the IBM I know and hate!) > > When I telnet to my machines, I'd like to be able to set my term type, > but there's no 3270 entry in termcap. I suspect it may not be possible, > since 3270 terminals are kind of fruity anyway, but does anyone have a > termcap entry for one of these? Sorry Scott, you need more than just a termcap entry for a 3270. The 3270 is an IBM block mode EBCDIC character set device. You need a whole program to emulate its behaivor and do the ASCII <=> EBCDIC conversion. Many Unix systems provide just such a program for telnet access to IBM systems, called "tn3270". Currently Apollo doesn't support tn3270 (at least not that I know of). I once got the sources for tn3270 off the net and tried to build it under sr10.1. It produced a program that ran but promptly locked up each time I tried to use it. Does anybody have a working Apollo port of tn3270? Does anybody know if Apollo/HP plans to support it in the near future? Dave Funk