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From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: tn3270 for PCs with Excelan cards
Summary: You can get TN3270 from us, but not w/simultaneous Netware (at least
	 on the EXOS205 family).  Otherwise, you've got some coding to do.
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Date: 8 Feb 89 18:19:27 GMT
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In article <2797@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, anderer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (David G Anderer) writes:
> Here's a convoluted problem:
> 
> We've got several classrooms of IBM PCs (and ATs and PS/2s) each running
> on their own Novell SFT 2.1 LAN.  The machines are connected via Thin
> Ethernet and use Excelan cards (205Ts, 215Ts for MCA.)  This is a
> 'supported' setup from Novell and works nicely.
> ...
> However, one mainframe we need to connect to is an IBM 3090.
> ...
> 	2. Obtain a version of telnet that runs on the Excelan card and
> 	does 3270 emulation.

We sell the only TN3270 for DOS that can run on the EXOS205.  We offer
co-existence with Netware on a number of cards, but the EXOS205 is not
presently one of them.

> 	3. Obtain source for a PD version of telnet that does 3270 emulation
> 	(but doesn't support the Excelan card) and add Excelan support.

You could port Greg Minshall's Unix "tn3270", available from U.C. Berkeley
on tape, or via FTP from ucbarpa.berkeley.edu.  You'll need a sockets
library, a curses library, and the program probably will require large model.
The code is pretty portable (we used it), but it isn't structured for
DOS, or a bit-mapped display.

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