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<h1 id="main-title">3270 Async Terminal Emulation and File Transfer Needed</h1>
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I am looking for a package to duplicate the capabilities of IBM's FT Term.<BR>
It runs on PCs and includes 3270 terminal emulation running over async<BR>
lines with support for 5 DFT sessions and file transfer on a single call.<BR>
Does any package for the Macintosh duplicate this functionality?<BR>
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The PC/HOST File Transfer and Terminal Emulator Program (FTTERM) provides<BR>
3270, DEC VT100, DEC VT220 and 3101 terminal emulators, along with 3270 and<BR>
ASCII file transfer capabilities.  In addition, FTTERM Version 2.1 expands<BR>
its connectivity options to let an IBM Personal Computer or Personal<BR>
System/2 operate on an IBM Token-Ring Network or a Broadband IBM PC<BR>
Network local area network (LAN).<BR>
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When operating on the LAN, it uses the Enhanced Bios Interface Programs and<BR>
communicates through the IBM Local Area Network Asynchronous Connection<BR>
Server Program (LANACS), to connect to ASCII Hosts, dial Information<BR>
Providers, and obtain the use of Protocol Converters to allow access to IBM<BR>
hosts.  File transfer is supported to ASCII hosts or IBM Hosts. FTTERM<BR>
Version 2.1 also supports an asynchronous connection for IBM Professional<BR>
Office System (PROFS) (TM) Applications Support Feature (PASF) Version<BR>
2.2.2 (non-Token-Ring LAN configurations) and GDDM-PCLK 1.1 through the<BR>
FTHLLAPI (FTTERM High Level Language Application Program Interface)<BR>
facility.<BR>
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The actual session management is controlled at the 3174 and not by<BR>
FTTERM.DFT emulators like Personal Communications/3270 control sessions<BR>
within the PC. In previous microcode levels, an ASCII display connected to<BR>
the Async Emulation Adapter (AEA) was able to have only two sessions,<BR>
although Coax-type CUT terminals were allowed up to 5 sessions.  Microcode<BR>
level B2 has extended that support to ASCII displays and the AEA.<BR>
<BR>
We have not found a similar application with these functions on the<BR>
Macintosh.  Simware offers a multi-session 3270 terminal emulators and file<BR>
transfer over asynchronous lines, if used in conjunction with their host<BR>
software Sim3278 VM or VTAM.  RELAY provides only file transfer over async<BR>
lines to a mainframe running RELAY Communications' RELAY/VM or RELAY/TSO.<BR>
MacBLAST software for IBM mainframe also transfers text or binary files via<BR>
async ports or protocol converters.  DCA (formerly Avatar) MacMainFrame DX <BR>
provides only single-session terminal emulation and file transfer over <BR>
asynchronous lines.<BR>
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Article Change History: <BR>
26 July 1993 - Company title changed from Avatar to DCA (Digital Communication<BR>
               Associates).<BR></div>
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