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<TITLE>x3270 3.1.1 General Release</TITLE>
<H1>x3270 3.1.1 General Release</H1>
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x3270 is an IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator for X windows.<P>
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Documentation is in the Docs directory (plain text) and the html directory
(hypertext).
The files are:<P>
<DL>
<DT><A HREF="Intro.html">Intro</A>
<DD>What x3270 is
<DT><A HREF="Lineage.html">Lineage</A>
<DD>Where x3270 came from (copyright stuff)
<DT><A HREF="Build.html">Build</A>
<DD>How to build and install x3270
<DT><A HREF="FAQ.html">FAQ</A>
<DD>Frequently Asked Questions (what to do when something goes wrong)
<DT><A HREF="Attributes.html">Attributes</A>
<DD>A translation table for 3270 field attributes
<DT><A HREF="Resources.html">Resources</A>
<DD>Voluminous documentation of all the X resources used by x3270
<DT><A HREF="Charset.html">Charset</A>
<DD>An explanation of x3270's use of fonts and character sets
<DT><A HREF="New.html">New</A>
<DD>What's new in this release
<DT><A HREF="Bugs.html">Bugs</A>
<DD>What's broken in this release
<DT><A HREF="Wishlist.html">Wishlist</A>
<DD>What isn't in this release
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There is also a hypertext version of the
<A HREF="x3270.man.html">x3270 man page</A>,
and of the man pages for
<A HREF="x3270if.html">x3270if</A>,
<A HREF="x3270-script.html">x3270-script</A>
and
<A HREF="ibm_hosts.html">ibm_hosts</A>.
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Please read <A HREF="Build.html">Build</A> before going ahead and building
the program.  Also, if you
have a problem, scan through <A HREF="FAQ.html">FAQ</A>; there are lots of
interesting answers there.
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Updates to x3270 are available on
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/x3270"><I>ftp.x.org</I></A>
and several
<A HREF="http://www.x.org/consortium/GettingX11R6.html#network_na">X11R6 mirror sites</A>, usually in the /contrib/applications/x3270 directory.
Fixes are often
distributed as patch files (you will need gnu patch to apply them) under the
name <SAMP>fix.</SAMP><I>nn</I>, e.g., the next fix to version 3.1.1 will be
x3270-3.1.1.fix07.
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Feel free to send comments, criticism, suggestions, complaints, etc., to Paul
Mattes, <A HREF="mailto:x3270@cnt.com"><B>x3270@cnt.com</B></A>.  Requests will
be addressed as time and resources permit.
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There is also an x3270 mailing list, which receives news about new releases.
Send a message to <A HREF="mailto:x3270@cnt.com"><B>x3270@cnt.com</B></A> (it's
a real person, with an automatic responses for certain subject lines) to get on
the list.
