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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: Help?  (EBCDIC/ASCII translation)
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Date: 17 Jan 89 16:12:40 GMT
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It wouldn't surprise me if the UMD/IBM PC TN3270 has the same translation
tables as Greg Minshall's ubiquitous Unix tn3270 (that's where we started,
but they may also have started with one of IBM's own 3270 emulators...) 
In the Unix version, there was no provision for customizing the tables,
unless you edited the source.  The Unix version does have keyboard
customization, but without an easy means of adding things to the translation
tables, it isn't much good for accented characters.

Regarding the keyboard issue:  We have a re-mappable keyboard, which allows
the user to define and re-define the codes returned by keystrokes (and
combinations of keys).  It isn't like the Unix version, though, and it doesn't
allow anything like the Alt-keypad mechanism you mention.

Regarding the translation table issue:  I am in the final stages of testing
fully loadable Ascii/EBCDIC translation tables for our TN3270.  The files are
binary, so local customization will be better done by fairly sophisticated
people, and distributed with the rest of the package (e.g. by the local
duplication operation that distributes copies under a PC/TCP Site License).
This should show up in production by March or so.

James VanBokkelen
FTP Software Inc.