Accessing FilePro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:44:57PM -0400, Cal Robinson wrote:
> Our company has been using FilePro for a number of years. However, 
> we've been running everything on dumb serial terminals.
> We are currently in the process of adding Linux Fedora machines to our 
> system. I can currently ping all the systems but am wondering how users 
> on these machines can access FilePro.
> 
> Do I use something like telenet?

Telnet.

Telenet was a packet switching network that overlapped with the
beginnings ofthe Internet, and is probably dead now.  :-)

> I'm really an amature at networking so I really appreciate your help. 
> Please speak simply.

Some people like NetTerm, some IceTen, some Mr. Rasmussen's product,
which embarassingly enough, I can't remember, and some are happy with
PuTTY (which is also SSH equipped; good if your users are outside your
firewall).

[ rereads original question ]

Oh.  You want the users *on* fedora to get to whatever filePro is on.

Yeah, telnet, or ssh.  You'll need a termcap entry on the filePro side
that's a good match of name and functions for whatever you're running
telnet *from*, be that a konsole window, a text console, or what have
you.  On *nix, the connection program doesn't have to do the emulation,
because it's running in a window (or on a text console) that does it
for you.

Cheers,
-- jra
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