1 | x3270 3.1.1 General Release |
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3 | x3270 is an IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator for X windows. |
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5 | Documentation is in the Docs directory (plain text) and the html directory |
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6 | (hypertext). The files are: |
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8 | Intro |
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9 | What x3270 is |
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10 | Lineage |
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11 | Where x3270 came from (copyright stuff) |
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12 | Build |
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13 | How to build and install x3270 |
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14 | FAQ |
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15 | Frequently Asked Questions (what to do when something goes wrong) |
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16 | Attributes |
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17 | A translation table for 3270 field attributes |
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18 | Resources |
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19 | Voluminous documentation of all the X resources used by x3270 |
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20 | Charset |
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21 | An explanation of x3270's use of fonts and character sets |
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22 | New |
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23 | What's new in this release |
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24 | Bugs |
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25 | What's broken in this release |
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26 | Wishlist |
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27 | What isn't in this release |
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29 | There is also a hypertext version of the x3270 man page, and of the man pages |
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30 | for x3270if, x3270-script and ibm_hosts. |
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32 | Please read Build before going ahead and building the program. Also, if you |
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33 | have a problem, scan through FAQ; there are lots of interesting answers there. |
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35 | Updates to x3270 are available on ftp.x.org and several X11R6 mirror sites, |
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36 | usually in the /contrib/applications/x3270 directory. Fixes are often |
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37 | distributed as patch files (you will need gnu patch to apply them) under the |
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38 | name fix.nn, e.g., the next fix to version 3.1.1 will be x3270-3.1.1.fix07. |
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40 | Feel free to send comments, criticism, suggestions, complaints, etc., to Paul |
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41 | Mattes, x3270@cnt.com. Requests will be addressed as time and resources permit. |
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43 | There is also an x3270 mailing list, which receives news about new releases. |
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44 | Send a message to x3270@cnt.com (it's a real person, with an automatic |
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45 | responses for certain subject lines) to get on the list. |
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