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Re: lynx-dev OS-400 Version of Lynx? (fwd)
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Re: lynx-dev OS-400 Version of Lynx? (fwd) |
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Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:23:02 -0600 (MDT) |
In a recent note, address@hidden said:
> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Is OS-400 anything like OS-390? one of the developers has made changes
> to lynx over the past several months to accommodate that system.
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 13:07:26 -0500
> > From: "Laimins, Eric" <address@hidden>
> >
> > Out of curiosity, has anyone ever ported Lynx to OS-400? We are looking
> > for a way to get a text only browser to dumb-terminals attached to an
> > AS/400...
> >
> > Essentially, we need to give insurance companies access to our web-site.
> > This poses a problem given the fact that the insurance industry is
> > running a series of legacy mainframe/mid-range machines. Many of them
> > are running MVS (which makes Lynx attractive for our use), but many are
> > running OS/400. Since most (if not all) of these companies are
> > terrified of the cost of putting a PC on everyone's desk, we need a text
> > only OS/400 browser. Do you have any ideas? Would porting Lynx to this
> > platform pose any significant problem based on your experience? Is
> > there another browser out there that we could use?
> >
I believe OS-400 is similar to OS/390 only in using EBCDIC rather than
ASCII. But the EBCDIC support is present in recent development versions of
Lynx (not the "stable" 2.8.1rel2). It still depends on a curses library,
which is now available for OS/390. But this depends on what you mean
by a "dumb-terminal". On OS/390, Lynx requires an Xterm, vt100 or the
like (connected via telnet or rlogin); a 3270 is not supported.
Rule of thumb: if vi or emacs works, Lynx probably will; otherwise
probably not.
I also understand OS-400 suffers a 6.3 single-case file naming restriction.
Lynx has been ported to systems with 8.3 single-case file names; 6.3
may be harder. (Offhand, I think of LYMain.c and LYMainLoop.c, which
become ambiguous at 6.3).
-- gil