difference between types of telnets

[James Jay Morgan]

"Plain" telnet usually emulates a DEC VT100 terminal when it connects to 
a host. TN3270 emulates and IBM 3270 terminals.  Mainframes usually 
insist that you have a good working emulator of one of these terminals if 
you run programs that use function keys or that try to draw on your 
screen.  Codes designed to communicate with a 3270 terminal cause 
terrible problems on vt100 emulators, and vice versa.  VAX & Unix 
machines usually accept vt100; IBM mainframes like 3270, but can often 
accept vt100.
Jim Morgan

On Fri, 3 Jan 1997 rplref at ptd.net wrote:

> This list has been helpful in the past, and I hope you can educate me again.
> I have noticed that Netscape allows for 2 kinds of telnet application, plain
> old telnet and TN3270.  Can anyone tell me the difference between these
> telnets? What they are used for, etc.?
> 
> Eileen Stec, reference librarian
> Reading Public Library
> rplref at ptd.net
> 
>