matt@bacchus.esa.oz (Matt Atterbury) (05/23/91)
*** AVOID FOLLOW UPS TO ALL NEWSGROUPS - Mail me and I'll summarise *** I'm after a similar thing to Bob Irwin. Also, please note that I know _very_ little about IBM/SNA except for a few "magic" words (e.g. 3270, 3274, etc :-). On a [non SUN] workstation I would like to run x3270. It seems to talk 8-bit asynchronous EBCDIC (correct me if I'm wrong) and emulates a 3270 terminal. If I could just get my workstation connected to a 3274 (or equivalent), would I have my mainframe connection? As far as I can see, all I need is a _cheap_ black box to do the 9-bit (1 parity) EBCDIC synchronous SDLC <-> 8-bit asynchronous EBCDIC conversion. If my workstation could talk SDLC through its serial port, I wouldn't even need that? |IBM |___|37x5|___|3274|___|black|___| w/s | |HOST| |Comm| |Clus| | box | | + | | | |Cntr| |Cntr| | | |x3270| thanks in advance ... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Atterbury [matt@bacchus.esa.oz.au] Expert Solutions Australia, Melbourne UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!matt@bacchus.esa.oz.au "klaatu barada nikto" or: ...!uunet!murtoa!bacchus.esa.oz.au!matt "consider this a divorce" ARPA: matt%bacchus.esa.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET "life? don't talk to me about life!"