tcp ip through windows i don t know much about computers so please bear with me here s my question context i use a package called slip on my home computer to connect to the university mainframe an ibm running vms mvs and log on to my account when i installed slip on my computer i had to configure it for my modem kbs etronics internal and had to supply the phone number to dial to reach the mainframe the way it works now is that i type telnet uicvm or tn uicvm either will work at the dos prompt uicvm is the node name of the mainframe the program then dials the mainframe establishes a protocol and gives me the logon screen telnet and tn are the names of batch files in my slip directory i have been told that a kermit protocol is used for the session problem i would like to be able to do all this under windows because i hardly ever use dos directly slip will not run under windows i talked to the people at our computer center and they suggested that i use a packet driver called winpkt com with slip they gave me instructions on how to load it before i start windows and how to modify the tcpstart and tcpstop batch files in the slip directory to ensure that it would work i did all that and i could run slip from windows but there were other problems for one thing slip would not hang up the phone when i exited i had to run my communi cations program to hang up the phone or reboot the computer when that didn t work for another there were too many errors it often took me tries to connect to the mainframe our computer center does not support slip under windows so i can t keep going back to them with more questions question is there some other shareware package that will run under windows and do what slip is supposed to do i need a package that is not too expensive which is why i am looking for shareware i have heard that there are regular commercial packages that do all this but they cost hundreds of dollars these are the main requirements must be able to run under windows must allow vt and ibm tn terminal emulation must allow ftp file transfers since that s the only kind the mainframe allows no y modem or z modem etc i believe the ftp transfers are made through a kermit protocol but i m hazy about that a subsidiary feature that would be nice to have if it s a true windows program rather than a dos program modified to run under windows is the ability to run the session in a window concurrently with other applications and to cut and paste between the telnet session and other applications any information received is appreciated pankaj saxena u uicvm uic edu
