On Sun, 2 May 2021 08:18:38 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: >On 5/2/2021 4:15 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > >> ... IMHO there is no reason to embed FTP client in 3270 emulation package. > >I guess it was natural for users to look for FTP on the terminal >emulator since that's where they did transfers before TCPIP on the > I would expect that "before TCPIP on the mainframe" it would *not* be "natural for users to look for FTP on the terminal".
>mainframe. But I always thought that was strange. Even stranger was >one emulator I used back around 1996 that would lock up the 3270 >terminal while running FTP transfers, to better simulate IND$FILE I assume. > Stranger yet was Mac tn3270 X (abandonware, STTL), with a built-in FTP *server*, presumably to accommodate sites with misgivings about running an FTP server but OK with FTP client. I had a major cognitive disconnect when a colleague first told me that to use FTP on the desktop I needed "to be logged on to TSO!" Only in later releases was the default setting to launch tn3270 with internal FTP server disabled Is there a possibility of a separate IND$FILE client with all the bells and whistles? It would need: o Understanding of 3270/7171/IND$FILE data streams. o But not ability to format a display. ??? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
