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From: palter@acsu.buffalo.edu (Bill Palter)
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Subject: Re: 3270 TELNET client (tn3270 ?) and AS/400 TELNET server (TCP/IP)
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Date: 11 Nov 90 17:33:58 GMT
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In article <90312.114531CJS@psuvm.psu.edu> CJS@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>In article <9011071458.AA25335@ftp.com>, jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
>says:
>We are using FTP Software's TN3270 to telnet to an AS/400.  It works
>pretty good; I wish it (TN3270) supported color or at least extended
>attributes (like underscore).  The default 3270-to-5250 keyboard mapping
>(on the AS/400) is brain-damaged, but (somewhat) easily remedied with a
>user command.  Also, it only does 24 lines.  I also use FAL's telnet to
>log onto the AS/400.  Extended color and highlighting work.
>
>Because of the weirdness in remapping the 3270->5250 keys, I wish I had a
>TN3720 that allowed its keyboard remapping to define more than one 3270
>key to be transmitted with one PC key.  The 5250 has 24 PF keys plus more
>than the usual 3270 attention keys: help, page up (roll down) and page
>down (roll up), some some functions have to be mapped to dual 3270
>attention keys (PA1+PFx or PA2+PFx).  A TN5250 would be nice for this
>reason.

	Can anyone point me to an IBM manual that describes a 5250 manual,
or a list of differences it has from a 3270.

	I have just finished implementing a new tn3270 and I am thinking about 
doing 3179-G or 5250 emulation as well. 

Bill Palter
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