3270 emulation?

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From:  Bruce Crabill <BRUCE at umdb>

What are you trying to do, virtual terminals or file transfer?  If the purpose
is to logon to the IBM from the Vax, then the best way that I know of is by
means of a Series/1 running a emulator package that was written by Yale and is
sold by IBM under the title "Yale ASCII Terminal Communications System",
program number 5796-RKJ.  Unfortunately, this is probably the most expensive
method of doing it.  There exists several other stand-alone 3270/Ascii
protocol converters that are much cheaper and work as long as you don't place
too many terminals on one.  However, if what you really wanted to do was to
do file transfer and the IBM was running VM, then what you probably want is
a software package written by Penn State Univ. that allows you to emulate a
node on a RSCS (Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem) network.  This
would also allow you to join BITNET (if you were an academic site).  This
package works very well and they have versions for Unix and VMS.  You could
also probably do emulation of a HASP work station.

                                       Bruce