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