Re: PC's as terminals?

>In Article<4oiieu$f3l@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, <Spetc@aol.com> write: > > Hi all > > > > I'd be very grateful for your help. > > > > We have Windows 95 PC's, connected via a TCP/IP network to Unix Servers. We > > use Informix 4GL and Online. > > > > I want to buy a first class terminal emulation package which would be enable > > a single PC to emulate many Unix terminals simultaneously over the network . > > I'd prefer that it was written specifically for Windows 95. > > > > I realise this isn't specifically relevant to Informix, but I'd be using it > > to access dbaccess, i4gl etc., honest!! > > > > Any suggestions? > > If you really want to buy an emulator, fine, but if you want to get a share ware product in the interim, head over to www.tucows.com and pick up QVT Term. It comes in two versions, the 16-bit stand-alone terminal program, and the 32-bit version with a pitiful news/ftp/mail add-on. The 16-bit version works quite well under windows95, and for >our< termcaps emulates graphics characters the best. Results vary of course from site to site, but it seems to work quite sell when telnetting around the globe. But you might want to go after some xterminal packages. Xsoftware makes a really easy-to-install, reliable package, but there are a myriad of others. -- \\\\|// (6 6) ==============================---o00--(_)--00o---============================ Tim Schaefer tschaefe@encore.com tschaefe@shadow.net Encore Computer Corp http://www.shadow.net/~tschaefe =============================================================================