Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!usc!samsung!rex!ukma!phoenix From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: looking for an IBM 3270 emulator Message-ID: <1991Jan11.191930.26603@ms.uky.edu> Date: 11 Jan 91 19:19:30 GMT References: Organization: El'n'tk National Spaceport, Mission Control Lines: 24 In article jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: >A friend of mine is looking for an IBM 3270 terminal emulator to enable him >to use his work machine from his Amiga. Does such a thing exist? Tougher question than he knows, and one for which I don't have a good answer, but I do have some more questions that, if answered, might _lead_ to an answer. Q1: How is he going to communicate with his work machine? They aren't running some kind of custom line, are they? If they are (or if they're just sending the IBM control characters over a modem line, which implies a far, far smarter picture of the 3270 series than I've ever seen) then he'll need something that does EBCDIC... if they aren't, and they're going over something resembling a standard modem, then... well, I'm not sure what to do with that, UNLESS: Q2: Does he need a "3270" emulator, or an emulator which recognizes one of the several protocals supported by the new smart IBM async terminal controllers? This, too, is a Big Difference. Most of the async term controllers recognize VT100s, in which case several are available; I use VT100 V2.6 (NOT! V2.9x, which is broken and will _not_ work with the controller - calls to line 24 end up on line 23) myself, and it works just fine. - R'ykandar. -- R'ykandar Korra'ti | Editor, LOW ORBIT Science and Fiction "I hate you, you timepiece from Hades." - Plucky Duck phoenix@ms.uky.edu | editor@lorbit.UUCP | ukma!lorbit!editor