🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.protocols.ibm
Article #770

TN3270 with HLLAPI needed for DOS machines on IP network

#770
From: Paul Nash
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 08:08
37 lines
2420 bytes
We are busy changing our LAN - MVS interconnection from Novell SNA gateway
products (version 1.x is very buggy and unstable, and Netware for SAA
requires a mega-back upgrade to Netware 3.x on 50-odd fileservers).  We 
have decided to use a pair of Sun Sparc-10 machines, with token-ring
adapters into a Mohawk MC400 (3174 clone), and thence the machine.

However, the MIS boyos want to use a product (Software AG's Natural
Connection) on the users' PCs that requires HLLAPI to talk to the host.
Does anyone know of a commercially available (or shareware/freeware)
TN3270 that will TSR-ify itself and present an HLLAPI v3 interface to
the DOS box?  Alternatively, does anyone know whether the source code 
for CUTCP's "microTN" is available for hacking?  Or the e-mail address
of anyone at Clarkson who might be able to make it available?

If we have to, we will write our own interface from scratch (or based
on NCSA's telnet, plus the Unix tn3270).  If we have to do this, it'll
end up being published in alt.sources or some such forum, but I daresay
that this will take more than five minutes -- say three days :-) :-).

Any info welcome, by mail, or FAX.  I fear that snail-mail will take too
long (the Sun machines should be arriving next week).  Please reply to

	Paul Nash	<paul@tantrum.csir.co.za>
	Fax:	intl + 27 + 12 + 841-4109
	Voice:	intl + 27 + 12 + 841-3050

Unfortunately, our newsfeed gets a trifle erratic at times (like goes
down for a few days at a time, as the entire country is at the far end
of a single 9600bps voice-grade line), so I would appreciate mail.  I
_will_ summarise, though, if there is any interest at all.
 
 ---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---=---
 Paul Nash                                         paul@frcs.Alt.ZA
 Box 12475, Onderstepoort, 0110 South Africa         +27-12-5611879

 "Standards are great -- everyone should have one" (Kent Landfield)
Technical Details
Message-ID: <1992Sep27.080810.13052@frcs.Alt.ZA>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!psgrain!hippo!csir.co.za!frcs!paul

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!psgrain!hippo!csir.co.za!frcs!paul
From: paul@frcs.Alt.ZA (Paul Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: TN3270 with HLLAPI needed for DOS machines on IP network
Message-ID: <1992Sep27.080810.13052@frcs.Alt.ZA>
Date: 27 Sep 92 08:08:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: frcs.1992Sep27.080810.13052
Reply-To: paul@tantrum.csir.co.za
Organization: Free Range Computer Systems CC
Lines: 37