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Date:      Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:21:19 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca
Cc:        "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Bernt Hansson" <bah@bananmonarki.se>
Subject:   Re: HPTERM for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20171016212119.8f59e996.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <706a0af9ae74b598d0c56947aa1c1cec.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:37:29 -0400, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
> 
> On Mon, October 16, 2017 13:37, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 
> 
> > Maybe you'll find something here:
> >
> > https://www.stromasys.com/solutions/charon-hpa/
> >
> 
> Charon is an MPE/iX emulator that runs as a VMWare guest on various
> flavours of Linux.  Both elements are relatively expensive and
> together cost several orders of magnitude greater than an extra HP-700
> series terminal.  In any case neither would provide block-mode access
> to an existing hP3000 unit.
> 
> There is/was an open source HP block-mode video terminal emulator
> named, I believe, HPXTerm.  I built it once under CentOS-6.?  As of
> yet I have not tried building anything under FreeBSD other than from
> the ports collection.  I suppose I can go down that route if there is
> nothing else.

I assume the HP terminal emulation isn't compatible to anything
else that exists? IBM 3270 maybe? In such a case, x3270 (from the
Ports collection) could work...

Sadly I cannot provide better suggestions as I've only dealt
a few times with HP-UX CDE. :-/



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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