Re: TN5250 for MAC?

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does Mochasoft have one?  Tried to look but can't get to their website
right now.


On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 1:54 PM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 9/29/21 10:39 AM, Miguel Peralta wrote:
> > Hello, good morning, a nuisance, do you know a 5250 emulator or for
> > IBM i for MAC? And file transfer? Preferably not using JAVA, I am
> > going to try the new ACS but I would like another option, since as
> > far as it is required JAVA
>
> Alas, everything I'm aware of, that will run on a Mac, is Java-based:
> our own emulator (we've never figured out a way to distribute it with
> license control in standalone form), TN5250J (which is more
> fault-tolerant than ours, but the UI is not as nice), and every ACS
> emulator I've tried (same comment as TN5250J).
>
> Pity that WRQ Reflection (does it even still exist?) wasn't ported to
> run natively on Mac; it's probably the only emulator I've encountered
> that I like better than the one I helped write. (Which is to say, I
> despised RUMBA with a passion, and despised it even more when it added a
> GUI-look status line that still used "alphabet soup" indicators instead
> of some approximation [or elaboration] of the status line icons found on
> 3180s, InfoWindows, and InfoWindow IIs.)
>
> Actually, come to think of it, I seem to recall helping WRQ fix a bug in
> Reflection: it wasn't handing "Read Input Fields" correctly. We shipped
> them a description of the problem, and a copy of QuestView, so they'd
> have something that used a "Read Input Fields" rather than a "Read MDF
> Fields," and within a month, they comp'd us a copy of the revised
> version. At least, I think it was WRQ Reflection.
>
> But no, I don't know of any non-Java-based emulators that run natively
> on anything but DOS (good old WSF, the only one for which an "alphabet
> soup" status line was ever even partially justified) or WinDoze.
>
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