Planet MVS
MVSintosh :: MVS and Macintosh
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Planet MVS
MVSintosh :: MVS and Macintosh
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Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite? Mr. Pink: Why can't we pick our own colors? How 'bout if I'm Mr. Purple? That sounds good to me. I'll be Mr. Purple. Joe: You're not Mr. Purple. Some guy on some other job is Mr. Purple. Your Mr. PINK. Mr. White: Who cares what your name is? Mr. Pink: Yeah, that's easy for you to say, you're Mr. White. You have a cool-sounding name. -- From the movie Reservoir Dogs |
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Now that the Macintosh uses the same CPU as does Windows, running Windows on the Mac Desktop is
very easy and runs at almost 100% native speed. A couple of products that allow you to do this is:
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Tip: ExposéThe first time I used tn3270 on my Mac, I ran up against the Mac OS X Exposé use of function keys which conflict with mainframe applications like TN3270 also using the same keys.Another tip from Jay Maynard is to change the Exposé key settings using System Preferences (off the Apple in the upper right hand part of the screen). Change the Exposé keys to require a modifier key like the command key and tn3270 will work as expected and Exposé will be available also. I change the Exposé preferences after each Mac operating system upgrade to not use the ones that I use in TN3270. See the screen on the right: |
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ftp mvshost --prompt for MVS userid-- --prompt for MVS password-- FTP commands here like cd get put quit
ProblemsIf you find that your FTP session hangs when you do use the "dir" or "ls" commands like:Enter these two commands right after your password at the "ftp>" prompt:ftp> dir 200 EPRT request OK
I see that Leopard (Mac X 10.5) says "Entering Extended Passive Mode" on a PUT so maybe it has more smarts now. I haven't had to manually use those commands in a while. Freeware FTP
The freeware FTP program I use that is MVS-aware the great
FileZilla. See the screen on the right:
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The Mac comes with a
Terminal program (like the MS/DOS shell on Windows).
I change the appearance of this screen to be more mainframe-ish using the Terminal application Preferences. The Homebrew option has a nice black background. See the screen on the right for the Preferences dialog example: Also in Preferences, you can also select the Window button and change the number of rows and columns. I run with a 44 rows and 132 columns (although shown below smaller for this web page). |
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The ".profile" file that is in your home directory can be changed to customize the
Terminal Shell and mine has this customization:
##
# DELUXE-USR-LOCAL-BIN-INSERT
# (do not remove this comment)
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echo $PATH | grep -q -s "/usr/local/bin"
if [ $? -eq 1 ] ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
fi
# colors
export CLICOLOR=1
export TERM=xterm-color
export LSCOLORS=gxgxcxdxbxegedabagacad # cyan directories
export PS1="\n\[\t - \d] \w \n===> "
#
alias dir="ls -al"
See the screen on the right:
Tip: You can easily get into a directory in the Terminal application using the GUI drag and drop. First type "CD " at the Terminal prompt, then drag the directory from the Finder and drop it on the Terminal window. |
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