Terminal Emulation on Fedora4

tatkins · #1 15th November 2005, 09:13 PM

I have been giving this a go for a while now, maybe some of you can help me out.
All of this is using gnome-terminal.
I have an RS6000, ibm machine. It is running a proprietary application. I have been trying to get some type of emulation working from fedora, that way I can get rid of some of my windows based machines and replace them with linux.

So far I have found that I need to "export TERM=vt100", that get's me so the text is readable. The windows based application we use called "BlueVista" uses ibm3151 for it's emulation, if I login with that I get trash. I then found the backspace would not work so I changed my profile to use compatabiltiy "Control-H" and now that seems to work.

I still have problems with some of the function keys working inside the application, such as the F5, F10 and F11 keys do not work, instead I end up with some text on a cursor line when I use them.

I'm not sure I know enough about what I'm doing to get these to work, thought some of you might have some idea's for me to try.
TIA
Tom

jim@nordisk · #2 9th February 2007, 12:41 AM

First thing you need to do is to make sure you have the terminal support for vt-100 loaded from you AIX installation package. Use smit and the install software optiong. Then take the option that allows you to list installed software.. If you and @ next to the VT-100 you have installed the terminal driver. The next thing you need to do is make shure your async port is configured for VT-100 and not 3151. You can do this through smit (system maintenance Interface tool) and select devices and then the tty port you are using. If you are using a network configure the ptty for vt-100.

I use the xterminal from Fedora ove the network to communicate with my RS/6000's (currently have 6 systems i work with) and it works pretty well. To back space you need to use the control key with the backspace key and the function keys are the excape key with the number key. F10, F11 and F12 work fine just the way they are.

Hope this helps.

RupertPupkin · #3 9th February 2007, 02:46 AM

I'm not aware of any free IBM 3151 terminal emulator for Linux. There are commercial, non-free, emulators though. For example, PowerTerm InterConnect , which has a free trial version. If you absolutely must have something free, then you could give tn5250 or x3270 a try; you may luck out and get one of those to work as a 3151. x3270 is in Fedora Extras.