Hello all, At my day job I use a program called "Procomm Plus 4.8" (Symantec) on a Windows box in order to communicate with the IBM RS/6000 AIX box. I need to emulate the Wyse 60 terminal in order to do this. I'm looking for a Linux solution to this problem.... is anyone aware of something that will do this?.... at work we communicate via a direct-connection over serial port, however I'm more concerned with connecting from my home box (SuSE 7.3 Pro.) via modem. Thanks, Steve
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:26:07AM -0500, steve@carbinworld.com wrote:
Hello all, At my day job I use a program called "Procomm Plus 4.8" (Symantec) on a Windows box in order to communicate with the IBM RS/6000 AIX box. I need to emulate the Wyse 60 terminal in order to do this. I'm looking for a Linux solution to this problem.... is anyone aware of something that will do this?.... at work we communicate via a direct-connection over serial port, however I'm more concerned with connecting from my home box (SuSE 7.3 Pro.) via modem.
I guess you are communicating to the RS/6000 via a serial port? If so, you can probably connect to a Linux box at work, which will be connected via serial cable to the machine, and you can run minicom on the work Linux box. Alternatively, tell us how you connect to the RS/6000 machine? -- David Smith Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 (direct) STMicroelectronics Fax: +44 (0)1454 617910 1000 Aztec West TINA (ST only): (065) 2380 Almondsbury Home: 01454 616963 BRISTOL Mobile: 07932 642724 BS32 4SQ Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk
I'm sure that i could have done a better job explaining my situation. Currently most users connect to the AIX box at work via dumb terminals (Wyse 60's), those users lucky enough to have PC's all run Windows of one sort or another, and run Procomm Plus 4.8 in order to communicate with the AIX box. These PC's connect via serial port. Users who wish to login to the RS/6000 from home all use Procomm Plus over a modem connection. I wish to remove my windows partition at home entirely, and find a program that runs on SuSE 7.3 to communicate. I've tried Win 32 clients like Secure CRT (on Win boxes) to see if I can login via any other protocol than Wyse 60..... I get garbage after successfully logging in, so I think that the AIX box will only accept this protocol..... if I can find a solution, I will migrate the office boxes over to Linux, one-by-one. Steve At 11:38 AM 1/15/2002, Dave Smith wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:26:07AM -0500, steve@carbinworld.com wrote:
Hello all, At my day job I use a program called "Procomm Plus 4.8" (Symantec) on a Windows box in order to communicate with the IBM RS/6000 AIX box. I
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I guess you are communicating to the RS/6000 via a serial port? If so, you can probably connect to a Linux box at work, which will be connected via serial cable to the machine, and you can run minicom on the work Linux box.
Alternatively, tell us how you connect to the RS/6000 machine?
-- David Smith Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 (direct) STMicroelectronics Fax: +44 (0)1454 617910 1000 Aztec West TINA (ST only): (065) 2380 Almondsbury Home: 01454 616963 BRISTOL Mobile: 07932 642724 BS32 4SQ Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk
Stephen H Carbin
Currently most users connect to the AIX box at work via dumb terminals (Wyse 60's), those users lucky enough to have PC's all run Windows of one sort or another, and run Procomm Plus 4.8 in order to communicate with the AIX box. These PC's connect via serial port. Users who wish to login to the RS/6000 from home all use Procomm Plus over a modem connection. I wish to remove my windows partition at home entirely, and find a program that runs on SuSE 7.3 to communicate.
You should consider: 1) the serial communication protocol 2) the terminal emulation Ad 1) Here, you set the communication speed, parity, ... I use ckermit but you may prefer a more simple program (the already mentioned minicom, ...) Ad 2) I'm not familiar with AIX and your applications but I suppose both use terminfo. In this case, start an xterm on your Linux box, start kermit inside the xterm's window, set up the serial communication parameters, connect to the remote machine, log in, and set the environment variable TERM to xterm. That's all. I think you can even connect from a Linux console emulator. AIX probably doesn't know about Linux console but you can "teach" it via the program tic (some knowledge is required here). Modify the recipe according to the program you will use (kermit, minicom, ...).
I've tried Win 32 clients like Secure CRT (on Win boxes) to see if I can login via any other protocol than Wyse 60..... I get garbage after successfully logging in, so I think that the AIX box will only accept this protocol.....
Check the TERM variable on the AIX box. Basically, it should be set according to the terminal emulator you use (many terminal emulators accept vt100 escape sequences so you may try vt100 if you don't know much about your terminal emulator.) -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
There are many commercial, free, and other choices in between. It depends on the level of sophistication you want. Basically Kermit will do the job, but it is pretty basic and can be persnickity to get going. At 1/15/2002 10:26 AM, Stephen H Carbin wrote:
Hello all, At my day job I use a program called "Procomm Plus 4.8" (Symantec) on a Windows box in order to communicate with the IBM RS/6000 AIX box. I need to emulate the Wyse 60 terminal in order to do this. I'm looking for a Linux solution to this problem.... is anyone aware of something that will do this?.... at work we communicate via a direct-connection over serial port, however I'm more concerned with connecting from my home box (SuSE 7.3 Pro.) via modem.
Thanks, Steve
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Thanks Gregory (and Alexandr Malusek) for your prompt responses. I think I have enough to get me started.... keep you fingers crossed (lol)... maybe I'll rid this place of Windows altogether! Steve At 02:13 PM 1/15/2002, Gregory D. Rosenberg wrote:
There are many commercial, free, and other choices in between. It depends on the level of sophistication you want. Basically Kermit will do the job, but it is pretty basic and can be persnickity to get going.
At 1/15/2002 10:26 AM, Stephen H Carbin wrote:
Hello all, At my day job I use a program called "Procomm Plus 4.8" (Symantec) on a Windows box in order to communicate with the IBM RS/6000 AIX box. I need to emulate the Wyse 60 terminal in order to do this. I'm looking for a Linux solution to this problem.... is anyone aware of something that will do this?.... at work we communicate via a direct-connection over serial port, however I'm more concerned with connecting from my home box (SuSE 7.3 Pro.) via modem.
Thanks, Steve
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