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From: jesper@freja.diku.dk (Jesper L. Lauritsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: tn3270 for PCs with Excelan cards
Message-ID: <4431@freja.diku.dk>
Date: 8 Feb 89 17:35:22 GMT
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anderer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (David G Anderer) writes:
>We bought the Excelan cards because they would allow the PCs to maintain
>simultaneous sessions to the Novell servers (XNS) and to the mainframes
>(Excelan telnet, tcp/ip).  Again, this all works nicely.
>However, one mainframe we need to connect to is an IBM 3090.  It seems
>that machine only knows how to talk to 3270 terminals over a telnet
>(WISCNET) connection.  The version of telnet Excelan ships can only
>pretend to be a VT-52, -100, or -220.  Thus the problem.
>	2. Obtain a version of telnet that runs on the Excelan card and
>	does 3270 emulation.

Excelan has a new telnet in beta test. It is called HostAccess/3270 and
can do 3270 emulation.
I talked to the European regional manager som months ago. They were then
looking for new beta testers.

HostAccess/3270 can not do VT-100 (etc.), but you can shift between the
usual HostAccess and HostAccess/3270.

I have not my self used any of Excelans products (at least not yet).

--Jesper

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Jesper L. Lauritsen, Center for Applied Datalogy, Univ. of Copenhagen
jesper@freja.diku.dk or ibtjll@vm.ibt.dk or ibtjll@dkibt.bitnet