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. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Contiguous Monitoring for Legacy **| * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
