help!! iseries as/400 or tn5250 config

[matteo filippetto]

2009/11/16 khobbos khobbos <khobbos at live.com>:
> 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
>
> I download “”iSeriesAccess-5.4.0-1.4.i386.rpm””
>
> When I try to convert it to .deb using alien I received this message
>
> “””sami at sami-desktop:~$ cd ~/Desktop
>
> sami at sami-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo alien iSeriesAccess-5.4.0-1.4.i386.rpm
>
> [sudo] password for sami:
>
> 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$ “””
>
> 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)
>
> Any suggestion about how to solve this problem?
>
> After I gave up I try to use tn5250 emulator which can access our V4R4
>
> 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
>
> Note that I am using ((ubuntu-9.10-desktop)) and this is the first time I
> use linux (glad to try so)
>
> Many thanks for your support
>
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Hi Sami,

in my company I use tn5250j (http://tn5250j.sourceforge.net/)
that as better performance and is easly to use. It also has a lot
of functions.

Bye bye

-- 
Matteo Filippetto