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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: tn3270 on PC/3C503
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Date: 30 Jun 89 20:07:21 GMT
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Our PC/TCP package includes a TN3270, and we support all the 3Com cards.
We don't share a single network interface with Sun's PC/NFS, but we do have
an add-on NFS client (called "Interdrive") which works with PC/TCP.

IBM has a TN3270 in their DOS TCP/IP package, and it runs on 3C501s (I don't
know about 3C503s), but it won't share with PC/NFS, and doesn't have an NFS
of its own.

Excelan has a TN3270 as an option to their DOS package, but it only runs
on Excelan cards, and they don't (to my knowlege) have an NFS.

If you want p-d software, your only choice is NCSA, which will run on
the 3Com cards, but won't share with PC/NFS, and doesn't have an NFS
of its own.  Once upon a time, Greg Minshall had a version of the Unix
tn3270 which ran on a U-B NIU's TCP/IP, but you couldn't build it
without a 'curses' library which wasn't on the distribution, and the
code hasn't been updated in the last couple of Berkeley tn3270 versions.

These are all the DOS tn3270s I know of.

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