
#Tn5250 refresh screen manual
This manual page was written by Carey Evans.

Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USAĪuthors tn5250 was written by Michael Madore, Jay Felice, Scott Klement and others see theĪUTHORS file for details.
#Tn5250 refresh screen software
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESSįOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Software Foundation either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is free software you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free The TN5250 TE product is LXE’s MS-DOS based TELNET 5250 Terminal Emulator (TE) and allows the user to enter standard data into the IBM system. Please report any bugs you find to the bug tracker or to the linux5250 mailing list. Tn5250 map=870 env.DEVNAME=session1 env.TERM=IBM-3477-FC as400sys Connect to as400sys using the translation map for CCSID 870 (Eastern Europe), the session name SESSION1 and with a terminal supporting colour and a Tn5250 as400sys Connect to the system as400sys, using the default translation map (37) and a generated session name (QPADEV #). These are some examples of the use of tn5250: Some terminals (such as xterm) do not support blinking text.If this is the case and tn5250 does not detect it automatically, Some terminals (mostly ones based on the VGA text mode) do not support underlining.ASCII terminals (and curses) do not support the 5250 column separators.The screen display tries to be the same as a colour 5250 terminal. + and - only work as Field+ and Field- in signed numeric fields.


Options tn5250 options are described in the tn5250rc(5) man page. V3R2, V3R7, V4R1 and V4R2, please see informational APAR II10918. Named session support (with the env.DEVNAME option) is available for most versions of OS/400, but is only supplied with V4R3 and later versions. Terminal does not support all these keys, tn5250 uses control sequences to perform the operations.
#Tn5250 refresh screen full
The terminal emulation works on any local terminal supported by curses, and provides 132x27 and full colour support where possible.Īn IBM 5250 terminal supports a number of special keys, and does a lot of processing itself before sending data to the host system. Tn5250 emulates IBM's 5250 compatible terminals to connect over TCP/IP to an IBM AS/400.
