Kirk,

I use x3270 on centos (and windows) quit intensively. it works very well.
however, I was not able to activate it under my macbook laptop. this is why
I use mocha TN3270 on my mack. beside the fact that is doesn;t support
ind$file it is reasonable product. I use filezilla to transfer files.

ITschak

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 7:13 PM Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:

> FWIW,  We have used x3270 on linux for many years, and it works fine for
> us.
> Granted, I don't work in a 3270 very much;  most of my z/OS work is in a
> ssh shell or ant+ssh scripts.
>
> (We also use a internal python wrapper that starts x3270 through an ssh
> tunnel with passticket automation automatically login to TSO without a
> password.   x3270's api works great with that kind of thing.)
>
> I'm curious to hear more details from those who think that x3270 is
> terrible......
> I wonder how many of these shortcomings have been sent to the maintainer as
> RFEs?
> We got some great help from Paul a few years ago with a problem, and we
> were happy to send him a small Paypal donation.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:32 PM David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 2020-01-08 12:32 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> > > I like Vista TN3270 a lot better than anything else I have available
> now.
> > > I slightly prefer Bluezone, but I wouldn't pay $30 for it over $20
> Vista.
> > > And it's a lot more than that.
> >
> > BlueZone is good although it crashed when I set a custom screen size of
> > 62 * 160. It's one of the few emulators
> > where you can map the mouse wheel to F7/F8 for scrolling (standard in
> > Vista).
> >
> >
> > > It would be nice if Tom B. would port it to Mac & Linux.  That might be
> > > enough to convert me to Mac, as I'm thoroughly disgusted with
> > > Microsoft-ware.
> >
> > No need to port it. It works fine with Wine.
> >
> > Microsoft are not the same company they were 10 years ago. IMO, Windows
> > 10 is a great OS and Office 365 is peerless and great value for money. I
> > have a Mac at home and they're great machines.
> > I recently had a choice between a PC or a Mac for a new work machine and
> > chose the PC. I spend a lot of time in a shell and find Windows 10 WSL
> > with Ubuntu to be better than using brew on a mac.
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