Re: Novell Access to Unix Informix

In article <8776@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, lei@mediatech.COM (Charles Lei) writes: |> Hello Informix People: |> |> Can anyone out there recommend a TCP/IP (and terminal emulation(?)) package |> that will allow users to access a Unix Informix Application from MS-Windows |> through a Novell server? |> |> We have an application that has been developed under Informix 4GL on a SCO |> Unix Box and our building is currently wired for Token Ring/Novell. |> |> Someone recommended the Wolongong TCP/IP package, anyone care to comment? |> Is Novell LAN Workspace the way to go? I don't have any personal experience in this area, but I have a comment: My impression of the Informix termcap for anything except a vt100 is that not much works well. I recall seeing a confirmation along this line from Informix recently also. So my guess is that if you can make any kind of connection between a DOS system and a UNIX system, use the best vt100 terminal emulator you can find and you shouldn't have any problems. What this means of course is that you can probably forego using a Windows environment. Now if you want to do the same thing from DESQview then I'm sure you won't have any problems getting what you want. (I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone insists on using Microsoft Windows.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John R. Carter, Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Informix DBA Computer Sciences Corporation jcarter@nas.nasa.gov Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation 415/604-3662 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 M/S 258-6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------