RE: Green Screen (Dumb Terminal) Email Client for System i

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, John Taylor wrote:

> Or, you could just configure a GPO in the Active Directory to lock down the
> Windows machine so that the only programs it will run are the Terminal
> Emulation software and the email client. That would take about 5 minutes.
> But the Linux solution would for sure generate more billable hours for the
> OP! :))

Two problems with that:

1.  Since it is windows, it isn't "green screen".  Both of my suggestions 
use a terminal-only solution;  x5250 is obviously a 5250 emulator and pine 
is a mail client that is text only and runs inside xterm (xterm is a 
terminal running in X).  The client clearly doesn't want a GUI.  Even 
locked down to just the email client on windows, there is still a lot that 
can happen in a graphical email client that is undesirable.

2.  Now you would be running MS Windows.

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
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