I agree. In the case of orexx, it was the case that those parts were encumbered by intellectual property of unfriendly competitors; with this emulator, I cannot imagine that. This must be the mistaken ‘modernize’ lobby at work; on the other hand, at least it atmits the fact that you need a 3270 emulator.
René > On 18 Nov 2022, at 17:31, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > Open sourcing is good; dropping functionality in the process, not so much. > Reminds me of ooRexx, where IBM did not open source the OM and WPS classes > from OREXX. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > René Jansen [rene.vincent.jan...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2022 1:41 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences? > > Just installed TNZ (on an M1 Mac) - looking good, and the more emulators the > merrier. Thanks for posting this link, and the medium article, would not have > found out how to disarm SSL on my own easily. > > I have to admit to mixed feelings seeing this: on the plus side, it is very > good to release this open source. On the minus side, it used to be a Rexx > related tool and was (afaik) not very generously given out to customers. I > remember having to script ehllapi in Rexx to do some of the things this can > do in a more simple way. > > For me, the time to de-Rexx this could have been spent to add GDDM support. > But you don't hear me complain about free and open source. It is good to see > the rexx.py source, which implements some Rexx BIFSs in Python - I have > already saved that for useful usage. > > Being a ZOC user on the Mac and Windows and a C3270 user on Linux, I have to > find out a few things. First and foremost, how I can get a LINEFEED on the > [Enter] key, SEND mapped to right-ctrl (or right COMMAND on the Mac) and > CLEAR to the right Option key on the Mac. Because this is how 3270 keyboards > were meant to be used and most people who complain to me about 3270 do not > know this. > > Secondly, I did not figure out the copy/paste yet. This is an important > function that a lot of the commercial emulators did not get exactly right, > and is also a weaker point of C3270 (depending in which shell you run it). > > The medium article refers to anti.py for documentation. Is there some more > doc I have to be aware of? > > best regards, > > René. > >> On 17 Nov 2022, at 12:05, Dave Jones <d...@vsoft-software.com> wrote: >> >> Now if it would only support GDDM style graphics orders like PCOMM does... >> DJ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
