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to: CHRIS HAMMOND
from: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD
date: 1997-09-27 16:13:00
subject: OS/2 and TCP/IP

 CH> Now the questions, the customer is currently using Warp 3.0.  Is  
 CH> upgrading to Warp 4.0 a requirement?  
No.  If you have OS/2 Warp 3 Connect, then you have both ordinary telnet and 
5250 telnet support as part of the bundled "LAN" TCP/IP support.  If you have 
OS/2 Warp prior to Connect, then you need to buy TCP/IP for OS/2, which was a 
product in its own right.  As I said recently in this echo, it is very likely 
that upgrading to OS/2 Warp 3 Connect (or, indeed, OS/2 Warp 4) is probably 
the more economical option of the two in the long term.
Note that OS/2 Warp 3 Connect and TCP/IP for OS/2 _does_ support 5250 telnet, 
but that this is different to Personal Communications (which is bundled with 
OS/2 Warp 4).  In my opinion Personal Communcations is superior to tn5250, 
the former having none of the annoying quirks of the latter such as having to 
press the left CTRL key in order to remove a message before anything else can 
be done, but I was able to work effectively using tn5250 to talk to an AS/400 
with first TCP/IP for OS/2 and then OS/2 Warp 3 Connect for several years.
 CH> What do I need to install to get Warp to work with tcp/ip as 
 CH> well as being a client on a Novell 4.1network?  
OS/2 Warp 3:         TCP/IP for OS/2 (separate product)
OS/2 Warp 3 Connect: Nothing, TCP/IP LAN support, including TN5250, is on the 
installation CD-ROM.  
OS/2 Warp 4:         Nothing, TCP/IP LAN support, including TN5250, and 
Personal Communications for OS/2 are on the installation CD-ROM.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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