Hi Jason,
Sure, do all the cool stuff while I bang my head against the wall chasing
cursor bugs. ;-)
Seriously, this looks pretty cool. Pretty soon, people will be switching
to Linux just so they can dump CA/Rumba and use tn5250. ;-)
Mike
> Hello everyone.
>
> I've been sitting on this half-finished patch for quite some time, so I've
> finally bit the bullet, finished it, tested it, and posted it. It's a big
> change but the code is pretty clean, so there shouldn't be too many bugs.
>
> The version in CVS now parses some rc files during startup, in this order:
> 1) $(sysconfdir)/tn5250rc (usually /usr/local/etc/tn5250rc)
> 2) ~/.tn5250rc
>
> Then procedes to parse the command-line arguments. The configuration files
> have the following format:
>
> # This is a comment
> name = value
>
> # The below is shorthand for 'name = on'
> +name
>
> # The below is shorthand for 'name = off'
> -name
>
> # This sets group.name to `on'
> group.name = on
> # So does this
> group {
> name = on
> }
> # and this
> +group.name
>
> The command-line options have been melded into this as well, so you can do
> this:
>
> tn5250 +underscores map=37 localhost:1975
>
> Additionally, this uses all options set within a group:
>
> tn5250 group
>
> This is good for setting up different AS/400 sessions, for example, like this:
>
> AS4001 {
> host = as.400.1.com
> map = 37
> env.TERM = IBM-3812-1
> }
> AS4002 {
> host = as.400.2.com
> map = 284
> +underscores
> }
>
> Then:
> tn5250 AS4002
>
> You can even do:
>
> tn5250 -underscores AS4002
>
> Here are the currently supported options:
>
> +/-underscores (old -u option)
> trace=FILE (old -t option)
> host=HOST (old host parameter. From the command-line
> 'host=' is optional)
> session=NAME (old -s option)
> env.TERM=TERM (old -y option)
> +version (old -V option)
> +help (old -h option)
>
> everything in env.* gets sent to the AS400 as an environment string, so now
> you can specify arbitrary telnet exit strings.
>
> I realize this is a big change, I will back it out of CVS if necessary but I
> think it's much more flexible and forward-looking a scheme. We now have a
> vehicle for implementing keyboard mapping (e.g. key.enter = field exit) and
> lots of odds and ends options (window-title = My AS/400 Session) which wouldn't
> have fit well into the old scheme. This should also interface very simply
> with scripting languages such as Perl and Guile when we add support for them.
>
> Please bang on it and make sure that it's stable (I've tested nearly every
> combination I can think of, but then again...)
>
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
>
> P.S. This breaks xt5250. I will fix to-morrow.
> P.S.S. It's case sensitive. I just realized that's probably a bad idea.
>
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