KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU (John C Klensin) (02/15/91)
Archive-name: internet/tn3270/multinet-map3270/1991-02-15 Archive: infoods.mit.edu:[anonymous]map3270.dat [18.92.0.160] Original-posting-by: KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU (John C Klensin) Original-subject: Re: Replacement for distributed MAP3270.DAT Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) >As a systems programmer at an IBM shop, I support an IBM Series/1 running >the Yale ASCII Communications System to provide 3270 protocol conversion. >Our users have been using it for almost six years now. Phone calls to >report problems have been few. Recently some of them have begun using >Multinet TELNET with TN3270 support and have complained about having to >learn a new keyboard mapping. >... Herb, You guessed it, this is not a new problem. I've got one, with a few qualifications: (i) It is bit hard to exactly match the S/1 mappings because, if I recall, some of the characters that we use on the S/1 get munched by the VAX. (ii) I'm not sure the "traditional" MIT S/1 / 7171 mappings are exactly the same as the traditional Yale ones. (iii) This version was derived for optimal operation with an MSKERMIT keyboard mapping for use with the S/1, not for a real VT100 or a "standard dumb ascii" terminal. So, you may need to do some further tuning. If, after all those qualifications, you want it, get MAP3270.DAT by anon FTP from INFOODS.MIT.EDU. --john -------