Re: vt100 emulation on Mac

In Article <4cfrjk$iqb@hermes.oanet.com>, Colin Campbell <occupant@datanet.ab.ca> wrote: >I am running an Informix based financial package, which absolutely requires function >keys to operate, under HPUX 9.?, presently using an HP terminal emulating a Wyse 30 >(!). Right beside it is my shiny new Power Mac, connected through Appletalk to a >Novell 4.01 network, gatewayed to the HP host, among other places. On my Mac, I have >a copy of NCSA Telnet 2.6, which allows me to get to the HP host and run Uniplex, an >OA suite, when I get there. Function keys are emulated with escape-number >combinations. I can also run Fetch, an FTP manager, through the network to the HP >host, and operate on files reliably when I get there. Our financials will not accept >function keys from Telnet, either directly or as an escape sequence. It would suit >my purposes very well to be able to knock the HP terminals on the head, so if anyone >has solved this one (connecting a Mac throught NCSA Telnet, by way of a Novell >network to an Informix database application under Unix), please let me know by >E-mail, or if it's really elegant, post it here. > Sounds like you need a Wyse emulator for your Macintosh. MacWise should work for you. It has emulations for Wyse 50, Wyse 60, VT100, ADDS Viewpoint and Prism. Will work fine for Wyse 30. The function keys are fully programmable. Works with TCP/IP so it should work fine through your Novell network as long as your host supports TCP/IP (which it must if you are using NCSA Telnet. you can try out a demo of MacWise at: http://www.carnation-software.com/~carn Rich Love - Carnation Software, Inc. Terminal emulation for Macintosh. Visit our home page at: http://www.carnation-software.com/~carn