droufa@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Donald J Roufa) (05/25/91)
Help. I have been attempting to use version 1.6 of winqvtnet to
replace the Clarkson TN3270.EXE and TELBIN.EXE terminal emulators on
an ethernet lan using the CLARKSON Western Digital packet driver. It
works fine on all of the unix and pc hosts on the lan, but gets
nowhere on our terminal server, which permits access to the university
IBM mainframe by emulating a 3270 terminal. Basically the connection
with the terminal server is never established and no error messages
appear on the qvt console screen. My guess is that the terminal
server host is sending 'handshake' queries to an accessing terminal
and that qvtnet does not know how to respond. Perhaps the qvtnet .rc
file entry for how to respond to an ENQ (^E) relates to this, but I do
not know the proper response for a vt220 terminal!
The Clarkson TN3270.EXE and TELBIN.EXE programs appear to correctly
respond to this handshaking, as they easily establish the connection.
However, when they do make the connection, there appears to be a
parity or protocol problem, as all of the characters received from the
terminal server have their high bits set and appear as graphic-greek
characters on my pc screen. This might relate to the problem that
qvtnet has as well!
Any help that anyone can give me will be greatly appreciated.
Although QVTNET appears to be a super convenient program for accessing
an ethernet lan from the pc windows environment, unless I can attach
to the university IBM mainframe through the terminal server, it is of
little use to me. Unfortunately, most of our central computing
services require a gateway through the IBM mainframe.
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