Have you tried gnome terminal? There's tons of emulators/terminals out
there...But you probably don't want to try them all. A quick search of
google.com yielded this little nugget: http://www.planetmvs.com/tn3270/
Now, I know next to nothing about this sort of stuff, but I hope this helps!
Russell
On Thursday 19 July 2001 09:03, you wrote:
> In my constant work to get my place of employment to switch from M$
> desktops to Linux, I have run into a snag. Our Enterprise application is
> telnet based, and uses VT220 or Wyse50 or Wyse60. Our Windows terminal
> emulation package for the application actually runs on Linux through Wine.
> But, they would still have to buy licenses for this package, and my goal
> is to not make them spend the $$$ for anymore licenses.
>
> What I need is a good Linux terminal that will support those emulations.
> I know the xterm provided with KDE supports VT220. But, apparently it's
> not 100% correct, because the app doesnt draw correctly through it. I
> would even be happy with wyse support if I could find it.
>
> I dont know if any of the people here who work for large companies are
> currently having M$ licensing issues like we are.. We have 2,000 OEM
> licensed M$ desktops out there. Microsoft is requiring us to either
> upgrade thier licensing to XP, or buy an Enterprise license. Either way,
> this is going to cost us $600,000+ every 2-3 years to get the licenses and
> renew them. If we dont, we lose support, and everytime a computers hard
> drive is replaced we have to legally pay for a new M$ license for that
> computer. Becuase an OEM license is only for the original parts shipped
> by the manufacturer.
>
> I know I could get a majority of our current desktop computers switched
> over to Linux if I could get this emulation problem worked out. All the
> desktop computers need is web suport and terminal emulation. Plus, my
> boss would be forced to switch if this happened.. No one can compete
> against free when it comes to $600,000+ .
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