[Talk] terminal programs

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi,

On Tue, 7 May 2002 12:56:08 +1000 "Admin" <admin at intersales.com.au> wrote:
>
> I don't know very much about computer programes, so I don't know what
> info I need to give you or even if anyone can help me

We will certainly try.

> We have a UNIX based computer program and we need a terminal program to
> link UNIX to DOS on our PC's.  We want to be able to network printing. 
> We are currently using TUN, however it is very expensive and unless you
> buy new licenses every time they put out a new version they will not
> support you.
> 
> I thought that someone might be able to offer a cheaper alternative that
> will allow us to network our printers, or tell me a website that could
> give me some answers.

For printing and file sharing, you need to run Samba on your Unix
machine (see http://samba.org/).  For simple terminal emulation, I
would suggest Putty (see http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/).
Others will suggest other solutions, no doubt.
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/