x3270 3.2 General Release
x3270 is an IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator for the X window system.
Documentation is in the html directory. The files are:
Intro
What x3270 is
Lineage
Where x3270 came from (copyright stuff)
Build
How to build and install x3270
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions (what to do when something goes wrong)
Attributes
A translation table for 3270 field attributes
Resources
Voluminous documentation of all the X resources used by x3270
Charset
An explanation of x3270's use of fonts and character sets
Keymap
How to create a custom x3270 keymap
Brackets
How to get [ and ] to display correctly
New
What's new in this release
Bugs
What's broken in this release
Wishlist
What isn't in this release
Y2K
Year 2000 Compliance Statement
There is also a hypertext version of the x3270 man page, and of the man
pages for x3270if, x3270-script and ibm_hosts.
Please read Build before going ahead and building the program. Also, if you
have a problem, scan through FAQ; there are lots of interesting answers
there.
Updates to x3270, as well as the current status of development and bugs, are
available from the x3270 Web Page,
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814.
Updates are also available on ftp.x.org and several X11R6 mirror sites,
usually in the /contrib/applications/x3270 directory.
Feel free to send comments, criticism, suggestions, complaints, etc., to
Paul Mattes, Paul.Mattes@usa.net. Requests will be addressed as time and
resources permit.
There is also an x3270 mailing list, which receives news about new releases.
Send a message to Paul.Mattes@usa.net (a real person, with an automatic
responses for certain subject lines) to get on the list.
