#FREE 3270 EMULATOR FOR MAC GITHUB PATCH#
Most proprietary 32 clients share resources, and consequently anything that goes wrong in one session impacts all other sessions - drop a few bits talking to mainframe A, the session bluescreens due to the latest windows security patch treading on some part of the IP stack, and when you kill the offending session you lose your other six sessions to mainframes B through G. I use the (relatively cheap, but not free) QWS TN3270 emulator from Jolly Giant Software in Canada to do this - it is far better quality than anything from Attachmate, Wall, etc. As long as you have key remapping ability (something all decent emulators have) it's trivial. You can readily configure any good quality TN3270 transport to be a TN5250 emulator - just prepend an extra escape to some function keys, basically. Right, TN5250 emulation is very similar to TN3270 - both of which are *extremely* different from regular telnet, because you are emulating a EBCDIC "half-smart" terminal rather than an ASCII dumb terminal. I don't know if there will ever be one, since the communities of old mainframes and windows shareware are worlds apart. All the places I've worked at that have these mainframes (a total of two) actually paid for their clients.
#FREE 3270 EMULATOR FOR MAC GITHUB INSTALL#
Installing cygwin company-wide shouldn't be too much of an issue as the install just copies some files and runs one shell script to create /etc/passwd after installation.īut yeah, if you're looking for a free native NT client, I haven't found one. I don't believe x3270 comes with cygwin, but it should compile OK (I haven't had any problems compiling fairly complex X stuff under cygwin). If you go with cygwin, you can cut the Linux boxen out of picture (definitely a good idea).
I don't know what the prices are for eXceed or other commercial X servers, but XFree86 under cygwin is OK and the price is right. It's actually decent, although it's not rootless. You might try cygwin's compile of XFree86. You could combine these ideas: get a bunch of old boxen, put Linux on them, get them a FAST network connection (network will probably be the bottleneck here), create accounts for your 1000 users (or be creative and use pam_ldap, pam_samba, whatever is appropriate for your environment) and have them run an X server on their PCs. The client he's talking about is probably x3270, which is an X11 program "regular" terminal emulators (like windows telnet, putty ssh, mindterm, etc), cannot do what tn3270 needs. tn3270 is a completely different environment (although still text-based for the most part).
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