Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 00:49:13 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Devin Smith" <devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Wyse terminal emulator? Message-ID: <006301c156e0$36878a40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011016185154.27776@mail.rintrah.org>
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I have a suggestion for you. Purchase a used Wyse 60 terminal from Ebay or some place for a few bucks and plug it into a free serial port on your FreeBSD system. It's easy to do this and run a getty and login to the BSD box then login to the HP - and in fact you can even set it up so that when you login you are immediately rlogin'd to the HP. It also might be amusing too because you may find that the HP apps don't actually work 100% right with the real McCoy - useful ammo to use to beat the system admins over the head who are beating you over the head about using FreeBSD. They can't very well argue that your real wyse 60 terminal is incompatible with the wyse 60 terminal emulation you need to run! ;-) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Devin Smith >Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:52 AM >To: FreeBSD Questions >Subject: Wyse terminal emulator? > > >I have this problem. At work we use a combination of AS/400 and HP/UX >systems which I access every day. Using the tn5250 program from ports I >am able to connect to the AS/400 from FreeBSD. However, many of the >programs on the HP system are hard coded to communicate only with Wyse >terminals. Windows users are able to connect to the HP's with Procomm >Plus which does Wyse emulation. However, I am unable to find a Wyse 60 >emulator for FreeBSD. Most things on the HP work fine using xterm for my >term type, but a few of the crucial programs do not work. Since everyone >else can use Windows to connect just fine, it is unlikely that any >programming changes will be made which will allow a different term type. > >Is there a Wyse 60 emulator for FreeBSD? > >Thanks, >--devin > >-- >Devin Smith | Master of nothing in particular >http://127.0.0.1 | > devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org >"How many people do *you* know whose mail server can handle 650MB email >attachments?" > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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