help!! iseries as/400 or tn5250 config

[Karl F. Larsen]

khobbos khobbos wrote:
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> Dear sir
> This is Sami
> I am trying to switch to open source OS
> and I start using UBUNTU
> Usually under windows i use AS/400
> client access to work with our IBM V4R4 server
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> I download
> “”iSeriesAccess-5.4.0-1.4.i386.rpm””
> When I try to convert it to .deb using
> alien I received this message
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> “””sami at sami-desktop:~$ cd
> ~/Desktop
> sami at sami-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo alien
> iSeriesAccess-5.4.0-1.4.i386.rpm

	This is a file for another type of Linux. It is not a .deb 
file, it is .rpm and will not work.




> [sudo] password for sami: 
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> error: incorrect format: unknown tag
> Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts
> in package iSeriesAccess: postinst postrm prerm
> Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to
> include the scripts.
> iseriesaccess_5.4.0-2.4_i386.deb
> generated
> sami at sami-desktop:~/Desktop$ “””
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> I try to use the generated (deb) file
> It install without any error
> But I can’t find iseries application
> and can’t run it from terminal (don't know the command)
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> Any suggestion about how to solve this
> problem?
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> After I gave up I try to use tn5250
> emulator which can access our V4R4
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> But again I face 2 problem:
> First : with window size it is 24*80
> and it must configure to be 27*132 columns, how can we adjust it??
> Second : it’s not recognizing Arabic
> fonts
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> Note that I am using
> ((ubuntu-9.10-desktop)) and this is the first time I use linux (glad
> to try so)
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> Many thanks for your support
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