X Window System, so don't forget to check that X11.app in your macOSĪpplications folder works. The source can be downloaded and compiled. It is free and is supportedīy Paul Mattes on the website (where you willĪlso find the curses-based c3270 and the Windows-console based wc3270 X3270 is free and supports macOS 10.15 Catalina Or its API then I guess you can still run the old Classic tn3270Įmulator under a modern operating system (albeit indirectly). (most of them free), so if they include the old MacTCP component There are a number of Classic Mac OS emulators around these days an Apple PowerBook), then it will run theĬlassic tn3270 software seamlessly (by quietly running the If you have Apple PowerPC-based hardware running (no later than) The Classic Brown University tn3270 terminal emulator supportedģ270 Programmed Symbol graphics, but that functionality wasn't Himself IIRC) during the era of Macintosh System 6, and System 7 It was written at Brown University 1988-1996 (by Peter DiCamillo Tn3270 X's predecessor was the (also free) Brown University tn3270. Peter DiCamillo wrote tn3270 X in 2002, back when Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2 were the latest Apple operating systems. MacOS 10.14 Mojave (GA September 2018) is still supported by Apple. Tn3270 X does not support macOS 10.15 Catalina (GA October 2019)īecause Catalina does not support 32-bit programs. Tn3270 X supports Mac OS X 10.1 through macOS 10.14 Mojave using Apple's 32-bit Carbon API. The 'Brown University 3270 emulator' that the OP was referring to isĬalled 'tn3270 X' (not x3270). Just a point about the names of the 3270 emulators in this discussion. Linus's Law: 'given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow'. No attention given to exception reporting or fuzz testing. To have been coded and documented to spec and passed review with Rexx 'MVSVAR'('SYMDEF'.) appears to show the opposite, seeming Informal suggestions from me and others in fora such as this. The apparent author has responded actively to Commercial softwareĬan go to both extremes. Making exits available that obviate the need for local modifications and making parameters available that obviate the need for exits are desired even by those who hate OCO, and do not imply taking away the exits or the source code.įOSS is often driven by pride in craftsmanship.

> local customization to be parameters plus object code, not source code.

> Customers are pressing to have exits go away. > Frankly I don't think I have seen any resistance to OCO in twenty years,

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