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Comment by shrubble

16 days ago

Reminder that the X11 based x3270 client can be used to communicate with mainframes, including the "Hercules" IBM mainframe emulator that you can run on Linux/Windows/MacOS .

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unixhero  15 days ago

The terminal client program named "x3270 emulator"?

  • shrubble  15 days ago

    Yes on my Debian derived Linux, the packages are

    x3270 for X11 based (it has buttons to click to send PF keys etc.)

    c3270 for curses-based (terminal)

    tcl3270 for using TCL to script interactions with a 3270 session

    s3270 for some other form of scripting 3270 sessions