From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO Carl-T60) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 2647009 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:55:19 -0400 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:55:18 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] TN3270 on eCS [Was: T410: . . .] Message-ID: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:16:14 -0400 (EDT), Tim Stephen wrote: >I think there is a tn3270 client for os/2. I've never used it but >perhaps you have and it is not up to your requirements. But just in >case you didn't know, I think there is one. Yes, there is a very good TN3270 package, Personal Communications [PCom], that IBM provide(d). As far as the 3270 emulation, it is all I need. Unfortunately, IBM has imposed an SSL requirement for certain functions that the PCom that runs on OS/2-eCS does not support. The Windoze version has been enhanced to support SSL. I'm looking at several options, including: 1) Boot Linux and run a crappy TN3270 package for the very limited needs that I have. And, then boot back to eCS for the rest of my work. 2) Boot a Windoze image,... see Linux #1 above. 3) Move to Linux as in #1, and try to run eCS in VirtualBox to avoid booting back and fort. eCS would probably then be used only for the functions that are a PITA to migrate, but the pressure to migrate will be reduced. 4) Move to Linux and try running the PCom for Win under WINE. I have no idea if this will work or not. If it does, it will ease some of the migration issues I have getting off of eCS. Then, eCS will disappear as a requirement. So, another strike against eCS... -- Carl