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- From: swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: BYU Telnet Capturing of 3270 screens
- Keywords: screen presentation, Macintosh
- Message-ID: <76684@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 22:46:55 GMT
- Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
- Reply-To: swb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Steve Buffum)
- Organization: Just Some Guy
- Lines: 37
- Approved: Somewhat subjective, what?
- Originator: swb@mickey.cc.utexas.edu
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- Preface: If this is readable, I may have been the first person to ever use
- alt.flame constructively.
-
- I am designing a Public Information Station for the Library here
- at UT-Austin, and am accessing various information sources using NCSA/BYU
- Telnet 2.5 (the one with session capturing). The problem is, some machines,
- most notably our own online card catalog, run on a IBM 3270 clone (Amdahl,
- but that's not important). The 3270 screen layout instructions are not given
- in terms of spaces and tabs, but rather in terms of screen location. For
- example:
-
- Word Word Word
-
- is not sent as:
-
- Word____________________Word____________Word (_ = space)
-
- but rather:
-
- Word20xWord12xWord (where x represents some horrible EBCDIC thing)
-
- Thus when I use NCSA/BYU Telnet for the Mac, whenever I capture a
- 3270 session, I get everything all run together instead of nicely delineated
- as it appears on the screen. Anyone run across this before?
-
- ObHack: Using alt.flame constructively to figure out how to post here.
- Either that or learning how to rebuild blanked program groups in
- Microsoft Windows for the IBM-PC.
-
- Steve.
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