x3270-3.1.1.9: description + notes

x3270
An IBM� 3278/3279 terminal emulator for X Windows

x3270 is an IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator for X Windows.

Documentation is in the Docs directory (plain text) and the html directory (hypertext). The files are:

Intro

What x3270 is
Lineage

Where x3270 came from (copyright stuff)
Build

How to build and install x3270
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions (what to do when something goes wrong)

Attributes

A translation table for 3270 field attributes
Resources

Voluminous documentation of all the X resources used by x3270

Charset

An explanation of x3270's use of fonts and character sets

New

What's new in this release
Bugs

What's broken in this release
Wishlist

What isn't in this release
Y2K

Year 2000 Compliance Statement

There is also a hypertext version of the x3270 man page, and of the man pages for x3270if, x3270-script and ibm_hosts.

Updates to x3270, as well as the current status of development and bugs, are available from the x3270 Web Page.

Feel free to send comments, criticism, suggestions, complaints, etc., to Paul Mattes. Requests will be addressed as time and resources permit.

There is also an x3270 mailing list, which receives news about new releases. Send a message to Paul.Mattes@usa.net (it's a real person, with automatic responses for certain subject lines) to get on the list.

Vince Levey configured and built this package for IRIX 6.x.

To auto-install this package, go back and click on the respective install icon.