gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-12-01T12:30:09

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the LINUX5250 Mailing List. Answers to common questions, including installation issues for FreeBSD, Linux and Windows are included in the documentation in the README file in the source tarball, the manual included with the Windows installer, and the other documentation found on our web site at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net Answers to other questions which may have already been asked are available in the linux5250 email list archive, which is available at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/ Keep to the subject. The topic of the list is the Linux Tn5250 Emulation project. (Though, the name "Linux" is a misnomer, since the software will work in Microsoft Windows and any modern Unix or Unix-like operating system) When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message. Just quote the parts that are needed to make the appropriate references. Flames are absolutely prohibited. If you disagree with someone, feel free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated. The official language of the LINUX5250 Mailing List is English. Do not post personal messages. Please use direct E-Mail. This list is international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money. Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some mail readers to truncate messages. While the participants of this list are happy to answer questions and help solve problems, it is greatly appreciated if you do some of your own research beforehand. Before posting a question for the first time, please take a moment to review Eric Raymonds excellent FAQ "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited. Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another participant, feel free to tell that person. And finally, if you are a vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself off as a user of your own products (even if you are). PLEASE NOTE: When posting to the list, any personally identifying information included in your message will be included in the list. To avoid including such information in the list archives, you may use the internet standard for signature separator (as defined in RFC 3676, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676) of '-- ' (that's dash dash space). The list archiving software will automatically stop including the message when it encounters the marker. By posting to this mailing list, you are granting MIDRANGE dot COM and David Gibbs (david-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org) non-exclusive, unlimited, rights to republish its contents. This list IS copyrighted as a compilation. Republication of this mailing list, for anything other than personal use, without the explicit permission of the list owner is a violation of U.S. Copyright Law and will be dealt with as such. Collecting or "Mining" of email address from this forum, or any related web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that it is extraordinarily unprofessional). Violation of the above guidelines will be determined by the moderator and will result either a) The offending party will be forced to make major modifications to a 10 year old, matching records, RPG II program that uses every available indicator or b) permanent disconnection from the conference (you decide which is worse). To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change mailing list options, please vist http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/LINUX5250 If you have questions or comments about these guidelines, please feel free to contact the moderator, David Gibbs via internet e-mail at linux5250-owner-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org MIDRANGE dot COM is a non-commercial organization and is not connected with any corporation, periodical, or commercial enterprise. For more information, send Internet E-Mail to support-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org $Id: LINUX5250,v 1.3 2008/06/24 20:48:48 david Exp $

TN5250 version 0.17.4 released!

Scott Klement — 2008-11-22T04:10:30

We are proud to announce version 0.17.4 of the open source TN5250 emulator. You can download the new release from SourceForge at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net The following are some of the new features in this release: - (Win32 only) added +click_moves_cursor config option. When enabled, clicking the mouse will move the text cursor. - added +uninhibited option. When enabled, you don't need to press error reset following an error required - added +allow_strpccmd option. When enabled, TN5250 will run commands submitted via the STRPCCMD CL command. - (Win32 only) added +numlock option. When enabled, TN5250 will put the keyboard in numlock mode when the emulator starts. - added +field_minus_in_char option. When enabled, the field minus key behaves the same as field exit when in a character field. - (Win32 only) added a Macro menu. Clicking the options will execute/record macros. (Previously this support was available via keyboard only.) - (Unix only) Lots of enhancements to scs2pdf. - More work done on 5250 enhanced support. - Many bug fixes. For full details of what has changed in this release, please look at the ChangeLog source file included in the source distribution.

back-tab locks up 0.17.3 in Windows, with fix

Buck — 2008-11-18T19:52:39

Here's the scenario: Start tn5250, sign on to System i. wrkmbrpdm Position cursor to row 7, column 11. This is the first character of the member name column. Shift-tab. Lock up. I believe there's a missing 'break;' in tn5250_display_set_cursor_prev_progression_field Would appreciate a second set of eyes, although it works OK here. Although I used the diff from Cygwin, I'm using make from Mingw/Msys. Also, browsing in CVS, it says the source files are dead/removed. http://tn5250.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tn5250/tn5250/src/display.c?hideattic=0&revision=1.74&view=markup start around line 940 or search for 'differentfieldfound = 1;' --buck $ diff -bur /cygdrive/c/tn5250-0.17.3/src/display.c /cygdrive/c/tn5250-0.17.3/src/display_1.74.c --- /cygdrive/c/tn5250-0.17.3/src/display.c 2008-11-18 14:35:03.265625000 -0500 +++ /cygdrive/c/tn5250-0.17.3/src/display_1.74.c 2008-11-18 14:34:13.218000000 -0500 < at >< at > -957,7 +957,6 < at >< at > else { differentfieldfound = 1; - break; } if (field->nextfieldprogressionid == currentfield)

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-11-01T11:30:14

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-10-01T11:30:12

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-09-01T11:30:29

Script file to customize scs2ascii output - Assistanceneeded.

Mitch Martin — 2008-08-08T14:41:02

Hello all, I've been using tn5250 on a Linux server for over a year and sending i5 print sessions to Windows network printers while converting the output to ascii, pdf and even tiff. It's the greatest thing since sliced bread!! ;-) I now have a need for something a little different and I'm asking for any hints on the best way to accomplish it. (Not being a bash scripting guru, myself) I want to take the output of scs2ascii and search that output for a user's name. Each output is a document containing 1 of 5 possible user names. I then want to write that output as a file using the user name as the filename and maybe adding the current date and time. I may want to further process or format that output but I can probably manage that with enscript as I've been doing. My thoughts are to setup variables with the 5 user names and then use grep to test for each user, check the return status code for a match and then write the filename. That is overly simplified, of course. I'm currently reading a shell programming book and hoping to put a script together but would appreciate any guidance from the more experienced programmers on this list. Thanks for any help. Regards, Mitch

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-08-01T11:30:43

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-07-01T11:30:07

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-06-01T11:30:26

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the LINUX5250 Mailing List. Answers to common questions, including installation issues for FreeBSD, Linux and Windows are included in the documentation in the README file in the source tarball, the manual included with the Windows installer, and the other documentation found on our web site at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net Answers to other questions which may have already been asked are available in the linux5250 email list archive, which is available at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/ Keep to the subject. The topic of the list is the Linux Tn5250 Emulation project. (Though, the name "Linux" is a misnomer, since the software will work in Microsoft Windows and any modern Unix or Unix-like operating system) When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message. Just quote the parts that are needed to make the appropriate references. Flames are absolutely prohibited. If you disagree with someone, feel free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated. The official language of the LINUX5250 Mailing List is English. Do not post personal messages. Please use direct E-Mail. This list is international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money. Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some mail readers to truncate messages. While the participants of this list are happy to answer questions and help solve problems, it is greatly appreciated if you do some of your own research beforehand. Before posting a question for the first time, please take a moment to review Eric Raymonds excellent FAQ "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited. Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another participant, feel free to tell that person. And finally, if you are a vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself off as a user of your own products (even if you are). By posting to this mailing list, you are granting MIDRANGE dot COM and David Gibbs (david-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org) non-exclusive, unlimited, rights to republish its contents. This list IS copyrighted as a compilation. Republication of this mailing list, for anything other than personal use, without the explicit permission of the list owner is a violation of U.S. Copyright Law and will be dealt with as such. Collecting or "Mining" of email address from this forum, or any related web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that it is extraordinarily unprofessional). Violation of the above guidelines will be determined by the moderator and will result either a) The offending party will be forced to make major modifications to a 10 year old, matching records, RPG II program that uses every available indicator or b) permanent disconnection from the conference (you decide which is worse). To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change mailing list options, please vist http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/LINUX5250 If you have questions or comments about these guidelines, please feel free to contact the moderator, David Gibbs via internet e-mail at linux5250-owner-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org MIDRANGE dot COM is a non-commercial organization and is not connected with any corporation, periodical, or commercial enterprise. For more information, send Internet E-Mail to support-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org

AUTO: Paolo Lanfranchi è assente (returning 05/05/2008)

2008-05-01T20:02:57

I am out of the office until 05/05/2008. Sono assente fino al 5 maggio. Per comunicazioni urgenti scrivere a cct-uncd42h23GOdynz+l4O+8A< at >public.gmane.org Risponderò al mio ritorno. Note: This is an automated response to your message "LINUX5250 Digest, Vol 6, Issue 17" sent on 5/1/2008 7:00:07 PM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-05-01T11:30:28

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the LINUX5250 Mailing List. Answers to common questions, including installation issues for FreeBSD, Linux and Windows are included in the documentation in the README file in the source tarball, the manual included with the Windows installer, and the other documentation found on our web site at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net Answers to other questions which may have already been asked are available in the linux5250 email list archive, which is available at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/ Keep to the subject. The topic of the list is the Linux Tn5250 Emulation project. (Though, the name "Linux" is a misnomer, since the software will work in Microsoft Windows and any modern Unix or Unix-like operating system) When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message. Just quote the parts that are needed to make the appropriate references. Flames are absolutely prohibited. If you disagree with someone, feel free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated. The official language of the LINUX5250 Mailing List is English. Do not post personal messages. Please use direct E-Mail. This list is international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money. Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some mail readers to truncate messages. While the participants of this list are happy to answer questions and help solve problems, it is greatly appreciated if you do some of your own research beforehand. Before posting a question for the first time, please take a moment to review Eric Raymonds excellent FAQ "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited. Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another participant, feel free to tell that person. And finally, if you are a vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself off as a user of your own products (even if you are). By posting to this mailing list, you are granting MIDRANGE dot COM and David Gibbs (david-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org) non-exclusive, unlimited, rights to republish its contents. This list IS copyrighted as a compilation. Republication of this mailing list, for anything other than personal use, without the explicit permission of the list owner is a violation of U.S. Copyright Law and will be dealt with as such. Collecting or "Mining" of email address from this forum, or any related web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that it is extraordinarily unprofessional). Violation of the above guidelines will be determined by the moderator and will result either a) The offending party will be forced to make major modifications to a 10 year old, matching records, RPG II program that uses every available indicator or b) permanent disconnection from the conference (you decide which is worse). To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change mailing list options, please vist http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/LINUX5250 If you have questions or comments about these guidelines, please feel free to contact the moderator, David Gibbs via internet e-mail at linux5250-owner-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org MIDRANGE dot COM is a non-commercial organization and is not connected with any corporation, periodical, or commercial enterprise. For more information, send Internet E-Mail to support-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org

tn5250 cursor returns to wrong position

2008-04-16T14:55:58

Using version 0.17.3 with SLES 10. It works almost perfectly with this one exception. We have custom as400 menus that have a 2 character option field to select your option. If I take a single digit menu option to run a program... when I exit the program, it returns to the menu with the cursor in the second position of the option field. Technically, that is where the cursor was when it left the menu, but it needs to reset back to the first position of that field. We don't have this cursor problem with Client Access or tn5250 0.16.5 in windows. Also, if I use a single digit option that calls a submenu, backing out of that submenu does return the cursor to the beginning of the option field of the previous menu. I tried to cheat and map the enter key to do a field home and then enter, which worked perfectly...except for when you have to press enter when there are no fields on the screen (like when you sign on and your user is already signed on). I could map enter to do a field home/reset/enter, but that's a little too hackish for me. We had this exact same bug using tn5250j, but one of our java developers was able to fix it. He says he just had to comment one line of code out to make it work right. I'm hoping this can be fixed that easily. I'm definitely no C programmer, and I don't know much about the 5250 protocol, but I may be able to figure this out if someone could guide me to the general area of the source to look at. Should I be looking in session.c or display.c? In all of the source files, there are 318 lines that include the word cursor...so I have it narrowed down that far, I think. =) I'll take any help or advice I can get on this one... Thanks! --- - Toby Stanfill --- - Programmer/Analyst --- - O'Reilly Auto Parts --- - (417)862-2674 ext. 1291 This message is protected by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USCS § 2510 et seq., and may not be used, copied or forwarded without the consent of the named recipient(s). The information contained in this message is confidential, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately at 417-862-2674 ext 1291.

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-04-01T11:30:29

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the LINUX5250 Mailing List. Answers to common questions, including installation issues for FreeBSD, Linux and Windows are included in the documentation in the README file in the source tarball, the manual included with the Windows installer, and the other documentation found on our web site at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net Answers to other questions which may have already been asked are available in the linux5250 email list archive, which is available at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/ Keep to the subject. The topic of the list is the Linux Tn5250 Emulation project. (Though, the name "Linux" is a misnomer, since the software will work in Microsoft Windows and any modern Unix or Unix-like operating system) When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message. Just quote the parts that are needed to make the appropriate references. Flames are absolutely prohibited. If you disagree with someone, feel free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated. The official language of the LINUX5250 Mailing List is English. Do not post personal messages. Please use direct E-Mail. This list is international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money. Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some mail readers to truncate messages. While the participants of this list are happy to answer questions and help solve problems, it is greatly appreciated if you do some of your own research beforehand. Before posting a question for the first time, please take a moment to review Eric Raymonds excellent FAQ "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited. Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another participant, feel free to tell that person. And finally, if you are a vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself off as a user of your own products (even if you are). By posting to this mailing list, you are granting MIDRANGE dot COM and David Gibbs (david-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org) non-exclusive, unlimited, rights to republish its contents. This list IS copyrighted as a compilation. Republication of this mailing list, for anything other than personal use, without the explicit permission of the list owner is a violation of U.S. Copyright Law and will be dealt with as such. Collecting or "Mining" of email address from this forum, or any related web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that it is extraordinarily unprofessional). Violation of the above guidelines will be determined by the moderator and will result either a) The offending party will be forced to make major modifications to a 10 year old, matching records, RPG II program that uses every available indicator or b) permanent disconnection from the conference (you decide which is worse). To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change mailing list options, please vist http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/LINUX5250 If you have questions or comments about these guidelines, please feel free to contact the moderator, David Gibbs via internet e-mail at linux5250-owner-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org MIDRANGE dot COM is a non-commercial organization and is not connected with any corporation, periodical, or commercial enterprise. For more information, send Internet E-Mail to support-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org

building x5250

Brian McKee — 2008-03-13T21:00:06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OK, so I'm having a hard time getting the key mapping thing working the way I want in the console. I thought I'd try x5250. I'm having trouble building it. Are there binaries anywhere? Brian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFH2ZXWGnOmb9xIQHQRAgqOAJ9zvgep0v/F4AyhO6psPapxH9zeIgCg55b5 XmxTjkbt4cijJpHUbyZ/BLo= =sGfB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-03-01T12:30:57

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the LINUX5250 Mailing List. Answers to common questions, including installation issues for FreeBSD, Linux and Windows are included in the documentation in the README file in the source tarball, the manual included with the Windows installer, and the other documentation found on our web site at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net Answers to other questions which may have already been asked are available in the linux5250 email list archive, which is available at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/ Keep to the subject. The topic of the list is the Linux Tn5250 Emulation project. (Though, the name "Linux" is a misnomer, since the software will work in Microsoft Windows and any modern Unix or Unix-like operating system) When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message. Just quote the parts that are needed to make the appropriate references. Flames are absolutely prohibited. If you disagree with someone, feel free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated. The official language of the LINUX5250 Mailing List is English. Do not post personal messages. Please use direct E-Mail. This list is international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money. Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some mail readers to truncate messages. While the participants of this list are happy to answer questions and help solve problems, it is greatly appreciated if you do some of your own research beforehand. Before posting a question for the first time, please take a moment to review Eric Raymonds excellent FAQ "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited. Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another participant, feel free to tell that person. And finally, if you are a vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself off as a user of your own products (even if you are). By posting to this mailing list, you are granting MIDRANGE dot COM and David Gibbs (david-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org) non-exclusive, unlimited, rights to republish its contents. This list IS copyrighted as a compilation. Republication of this mailing list, for anything other than personal use, without the explicit permission of the list owner is a violation of U.S. Copyright Law and will be dealt with as such. Collecting or "Mining" of email address from this forum, or any related web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that it is extraordinarily unprofessional). Violation of the above guidelines will be determined by the moderator and will result either a) The offending party will be forced to make major modifications to a 10 year old, matching records, RPG II program that uses every available indicator or b) permanent disconnection from the conference (you decide which is worse). To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change mailing list options, please vist http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/LINUX5250 If you have questions or comments about these guidelines, please feel free to contact the moderator, David Gibbs via internet e-mail at linux5250-owner-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org MIDRANGE dot COM is a non-commercial organization and is not connected with any corporation, periodical, or commercial enterprise. For more information, send Internet E-Mail to support-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org

Field + and Field - keyboard mapping

Brian McKee — 2008-02-25T19:29:59

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 man tn5250 says that '+ and - only work as Field+ and Field- in signed numeric fields' Is that a design choice or a bug? In other words - can I change it so that they work as Field+ and Field- all the time? And do you have any suggestions how to get back-tab to be shift+tab? If I can get those two nailed I'll be able to roll this out to about 50 users.... Brian McKee -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHwxc3GnOmb9xIQHQRAl8JAKCxwlyJp9qVCidGrD3YBmkbUDQIwACg5Ev9 xiCKMDCc9c1A46A2TZ/8u8o= =Y0TE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-02-01T12:30:41

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the LINUX5250 Mailing List. Answers to common questions, including installation issues for FreeBSD, Linux and Windows are included in the documentation in the README file in the source tarball, the manual included with the Windows installer, and the other documentation found on our web site at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net Answers to other questions which may have already been asked are available in the linux5250 email list archive, which is available at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/ Keep to the subject. The topic of the list is the Linux Tn5250 Emulation project. (Though, the name "Linux" is a misnomer, since the software will work in Microsoft Windows and any modern Unix or Unix-like operating system) When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message. Just quote the parts that are needed to make the appropriate references. Flames are absolutely prohibited. If you disagree with someone, feel free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated. The official language of the LINUX5250 Mailing List is English. Do not post personal messages. Please use direct E-Mail. This list is international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money. Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some mail readers to truncate messages. While the participants of this list are happy to answer questions and help solve problems, it is greatly appreciated if you do some of your own research beforehand. Before posting a question for the first time, please take a moment to review Eric Raymonds excellent FAQ "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited. Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another participant, feel free to tell that person. And finally, if you are a vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself off as a user of your own products (even if you are). By posting to this mailing list, you are granting MIDRANGE dot COM and David Gibbs (david-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org) non-exclusive, unlimited, rights to republish its contents. This list IS copyrighted as a compilation. Republication of this mailing list, for anything other than personal use, without the explicit permission of the list owner is a violation of U.S. Copyright Law and will be dealt with as such. Collecting or "Mining" of email address from this forum, or any related web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that it is extraordinarily unprofessional). Violation of the above guidelines will be determined by the moderator and will result either a) The offending party will be forced to make major modifications to a 10 year old, matching records, RPG II program that uses every available indicator or b) permanent disconnection from the conference (you decide which is worse). To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change mailing list options, please vist http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/LINUX5250 If you have questions or comments about these guidelines, please feel free to contact the moderator, David Gibbs via internet e-mail at linux5250-owner-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org MIDRANGE dot COM is a non-commercial organization and is not connected with any corporation, periodical, or commercial enterprise. For more information, send Internet E-Mail to support-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2008-01-01T12:30:04

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the LINUX5250 Mailing List. Answers to common questions, including installation issues for FreeBSD, Linux and Windows are included in the documentation in the README file in the source tarball, the manual included with the Windows installer, and the other documentation found on our web site at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net Answers to other questions which may have already been asked are available in the linux5250 email list archive, which is available at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/ Keep to the subject. The topic of the list is the Linux Tn5250 Emulation project. (Though, the name "Linux" is a misnomer, since the software will work in Microsoft Windows and any modern Unix or Unix-like operating system) When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message. Just quote the parts that are needed to make the appropriate references. Flames are absolutely prohibited. If you disagree with someone, feel free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated. The official language of the LINUX5250 Mailing List is English. Do not post personal messages. Please use direct E-Mail. This list is international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money. Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some mail readers to truncate messages. While the participants of this list are happy to answer questions and help solve problems, it is greatly appreciated if you do some of your own research beforehand. Before posting a question for the first time, please take a moment to review Eric Raymonds excellent FAQ "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited. Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another participant, feel free to tell that person. And finally, if you are a vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself off as a user of your own products (even if you are). By posting to this mailing list, you are granting MIDRANGE dot COM and David Gibbs (david-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org) non-exclusive, unlimited, rights to republish its contents. This list IS copyrighted as a compilation. Republication of this mailing list, for anything other than personal use, without the explicit permission of the list owner is a violation of U.S. Copyright Law and will be dealt with as such. Collecting or "Mining" of email address from this forum, or any related web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that it is extraordinarily unprofessional). Violation of the above guidelines will be determined by the moderator and will result either a) The offending party will be forced to make major modifications to a 10 year old, matching records, RPG II program that uses every available indicator or b) permanent disconnection from the conference (you decide which is worse). To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change mailing list options, please vist http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/LINUX5250 If you have questions or comments about these guidelines, please feel free to contact the moderator, David Gibbs via internet e-mail at linux5250-owner-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org MIDRANGE dot COM is a non-commercial organization and is not connected with any corporation, periodical, or commercial enterprise. For more information, send Internet E-Mail to INFO-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org

Guidelines for LINUX5250 mailing list

2007-12-01T12:30:13

Monthly posting of the guidelines for participation in the LINUX5250 Mailing List. Answers to common questions, including installation issues for FreeBSD, Linux and Windows are included in the documentation in the README file in the source tarball, the manual included with the Windows installer, and the other documentation found on our web site at http://tn5250.sourceforge.net Answers to other questions which may have already been asked are available in the linux5250 email list archive, which is available at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/ Keep to the subject. The topic of the list is the Linux Tn5250 Emulation project. (Though, the name "Linux" is a misnomer, since the software will work in Microsoft Windows and any modern Unix or Unix-like operating system) When quoting messages, do not quote the entire message. Just quote the parts that are needed to make the appropriate references. Flames are absolutely prohibited. If you disagree with someone, feel free to argue the facts, but no personal attacks will be tolerated. The official language of the LINUX5250 Mailing List is English. Do not post personal messages. Please use direct E-Mail. This list is international in scope and personal messages just end up costing money. Please do not use HTML to format messages ... not everyone has a HTML enabled message reader and the extra text can (and does) cause some mail readers to truncate messages. While the participants of this list are happy to answer questions and help solve problems, it is greatly appreciated if you do some of your own research beforehand. Before posting a question for the first time, please take a moment to review Eric Raymonds excellent FAQ "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). Advertising products, repeated postings, etc, are strictly prohibited. Also, if you have a solution that will specificly help another participant, feel free to tell that person. And finally, if you are a vendor, please identify yourself as such... do not try to pass yourself off as a user of your own products (even if you are). By posting to this mailing list, you are granting MIDRANGE dot COM and David Gibbs (david-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/w< at >public.gmane.org) non-exclusive, unlimited, rights to republish its contents. This list IS copyrighted as a compilation. Republication of this mailing list, for anything other than personal use, without the explicit permission of the list owner is a violation of U.S. Copyright Law and will be dealt with as such. Collecting or "Mining" of email address from this forum, or any related web archive, is strictly and explicitly prohibited (not to mention that it is extraordinarily unprofessional). Violation of the above guidelines will be determined by the moderator and will result either a) The offending party will be forced to make major modifications to a 10 year old, matching records, RPG II program that uses every available indicator or b) permanent disconnection from the conference (you decide which is worse). To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change mailing list options, please vist http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/LINUX5250 If you have questions or comments about these guidelines, please feel free to contact the moderator, David Gibbs via internet e-mail at linux5250-owner-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org MIDRANGE dot COM is a non-commercial organization and is not connected with any corporation, periodical, or commercial enterprise. For more information, send Internet E-Mail to INFO-Zwy7GipZuJgU04JRNCRQjg< at >public.gmane.org

Improved support for SCS and PDF

James Rich — 2007-11-22T01:33:09

Hi everyone, I have committed to cvs several improvements to the SCS and PDF code. These changes provide support for any page size or CPI, as well as some bug fixes. If you are using lp5250d to create PDFs or are interested in doing so, could you please test the latest cvs code with your printouts. So far it is working perfectly with everything I've thrown at it. You will need to create a special file for saving printer state information. At some point this will be handled automatically by lp5250d, but for now it is a manual process. This file needs to be read/writable by the user running lp5250d. If this file doesn't exist scs2pdf won't save printer state across print job, occasionally resulting in incorrect output. It can be called anything, but it needs to be unique for each lp5250d instance. scs2pdf can now also log what it is doing to syslogd. If your PDFs are created with the wrong page or font size starting scs2pdf with the -s switch and checking the syslogd logs can help identify the problem. It has two levels of logging: 0 for basic and 1 for detailed. The amount of logging is controlled by the -l switch (default is basic). To test this create an entry in ~/.tn5250rc similar to the following: printtopdf { host = your.as400.domain.com env.DEVNAME = PRTTOPDF outputcommand = scs2pdf -si /tmp/pdfprintinit > /tmp/output.pdf } The above example will store printer state information in /tmp/pdfprintinit. So be sure to create this file before starting lp5250d: touch /tmp/pdfprintinit Remember, the file needs to be read/writable by whatever user is running lp5250d. Thanks! James Rich It's not the software that's free; it's you. - billyskank on Groklaw