University of California at Berkeley
           Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
                          Instructional Support Group

/share/b/pub/tn3270.help
/share/b/pub/x3270.help

							         July 1, 2004


CONTENTS:
    TN3270 in an X window (X3270)
    Command line interface to TN3270


TN3270 in an X window (X3270)
-----------------------------

  The tn3270 terminal type is typically used when connecting to IBM mainframe
  computers.   The EECS Instructional Solarix X86 UNIX computers have 'x3270', 
  an XWindows program that provides a terminal screen in tn3270 emulation. 
  We downloaded the source for this from http://sunfreeware.com/. 

  To run our insatallation of 'x3270':

   	% xset +fp /usr/sww/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
   	% xset fp rehash
   	% x3270 & 
   
  The first two commands set up the 3270 fonts -- not strictly necessary 
  according to the man page, but this is the preferred way of using it; if 
  it can't find its fonts it will print a (harmless) error message and use 
  the default xterm 'fixed' font instead.
   
  Alternatively, you can give a hostname:
  
   	% x3270 mvsc.Berkeley.EDU & 
  
  Docs are in the directory /usr/sww/share/x3270 (plain text and HTML formats).
  Man pages are available if you add /usr/sww/X11R6/man to your MANPATH.
  
  Pertinent programs:
  
  /usr/sww/X11R6/bin/x3270
  /usr/sww/X11R6/bin/x3270if
  /usr/sww/X11R6/bin/playback
   
  Pertinent man pages:
  
  /usr/sww/X11R6/man/man1/playback.1      /usr/sww/X11R6/man/man1/x3270if.1
  /usr/sww/X11R6/man/man1/x3270-script.1  /usr/sww/X11R6/man/man5/ibm_hosts.5
  /usr/sww/X11R6/man/man1/x3270.1
  

Command line interface to TN3270
--------------------------------

 A locally-ported version of NetBSD's tn3270 to Digital Unix and HP-UX
 is available in /share/b/tn3270/bin/tn3270.  This port has not been
 thoroughly tested for reliability but it should be good enough for
 most common tasks, and the function keys appear to work.

 Pertinent programs:

 /share/b/tn3270/bin/tn3270
 /share/b/tn3270/bin/mset

 Pertinent configuration files:

 /share/b/tn3270/etc/map3270  (tn3270 function key definitions)
 /share/b/tn3270/etc/termcap  (NOTE that tn3270 does not use the local
			       /etc/termcap file or libtermcap.a library,
			       but has its own version of termcap compiled
			       in which uses this file.)

 Pertinent man pages:

 /share/b/tn3270/man/man1/tn3270.1
 /share/b/tn3270/man/man1/mset.1
 /share/b/tn3270/man/man5/map3270.5


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