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- From: larry@eco.twg.com (Lawrence B. Henry III)
- Subject: Re: TN3270 emulation on a VAX
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.161149.27351@eco.twg.com>
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- Sender: larry@vishnu.eco.twg.com (Lawrence B. Henry III)
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- Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
- References: <01GTE8HKP66A004FG7@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:11:49 GMT
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- In article <01GTE8HKP66A004FG7@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing) writes:
- |>
- |>Posted for a friend of mine ...
- |>
- |>A site needs TN3270 emulation to access an IBM system through dumb VTxxx
- |>terminals. The IBM system can be accessed using TCP/IP software on the VAX,
- |>but due to the number of VTxxx terminals already installed, it would be
- |>desirable to some software, on the VAX, emulate the TN3270 terminal and
- |>display the output on a VTxxx terminal.
- |>
- |>Basically a "$ TELNET/TERMINAL=TN3270" sortof setup. There are some TCP/IP
- |>packages for PCs which do this -- hoping there's something for the VAX.
- |>
- |>Anyone know of such a beast (DEC's SNA-3270 requires too much hardware)?
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- Dan,
- We have a very good implementation of TN3270 and TN3179G on VMS.. I
- believe that other vendors also have some level of TN3270 support as well..
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- -Larry.
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