Looking for a GUI terminal emulator for Linux

I've searched the newgroups and this question is being asked by many
people, but there aren't any pointers to software yet.

I'm looking for a GUI terminal emulator to run on a Fedora 4
workstation client, that will telnet to a server. This must emulate
wyse60. It only needs to telnet to a server and key mapping would be
nice, but not essential.

I've tried Ericom's PowerTerm InterConnect which does the job, but it
is expensive and very difficult to get installed. Surely there is an
alternative out there?

"(E-Mail Removed)" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> I've searched the newgroups and this question is being asked by many
> people, but there aren't any pointers to software yet.
>
> I'm looking for a GUI terminal emulator to run on a Fedora 4
> workstation client, that will telnet to a server. This must emulate
> wyse60. It only needs to telnet to a server and key mapping would be
> nice, but not essential.
>
> I've tried Ericom's PowerTerm InterConnect which does the job, but it
> is expensive and very difficult to get installed. Surely there is an
> alternative out there?

There seems to be something called wy60, but it's curses-based.
However, most of the terminal emulators out there will let you start
up a terminal, and run an arbitrary command in that terminal. So

gnome-terminal -e wy60

for instance will work.
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer

Thank you Joe for your reply.
I went to license the Ericom software and it was 121UKP for just a
single user. This was far too much money as all it is needed for is to
telnet into a sever.
Therefore, I've been trying the "gnome-terminal -e wy60". But I'm a
Linux beginner and I can't get this to work. It flashed up the
terminal window and then it goes.
I've tried making a desktop link for this too, but can't get the link
to work.

All I need it do is setup a desktop link to run a telnet in wys60
emulation.
Therefore, something along the lines of:

/usr/bin/gnome-terminal wy60 telnet 192.168.1.1

Of course this syntax is completely wrong. Anyone know how I can do
this?

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> "(E-Mail Removed)" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
> > I've searched the newgroups and this question is being asked by many
> > people, but there aren't any pointers to software yet.
> >
> > I'm looking for a GUI terminal emulator to run on a Fedora 4
> > workstation client, that will telnet to a server. This must emulate
> > wyse60. It only needs to telnet to a server and key mapping would be
> > nice, but not essential.
> >
> > I've tried Ericom's PowerTerm InterConnect which does the job, but it
> > is expensive and very difficult to get installed. Surely there is an
> > alternative out there?
>
> There seems to be something called wy60, but it's curses-based.
> However, most of the terminal emulators out there will let you start
> up a terminal, and run an arbitrary command in that terminal. So
>
> gnome-terminal -e wy60
>
> for instance will work.
> --
> Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
> Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
> New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer

On 31 Jul 2006 14:38:21 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I've searched the newgroups and this question is being asked by many
> people, but there aren't any pointers to software yet.

> I'm looking for a GUI terminal emulator to run on a Fedora 4
> workstation client, that will telnet to a server. This must emulate
> wyse60. It only needs to telnet to a server and key mapping would be
> nice, but not essential.

> I've tried Ericom's PowerTerm InterConnect which does the job, but it
> is expensive and very difficult to get installed. Surely there is an
> alternative out there?

You can try Wy60, available at:
http://gutschke.com/wy60/
or
http://freshmeat.net/releases/86405/

It runs in an xterm and translates as needed.

--
Dale Dellutri <(E-Mail Removed)> (lose the Q's)

Thanks. I'm trying Wy60, but I can't install it.
I'm a Linux beginner, so I'm picking this up as a I go along. Being
used to Microsoft for 20+ years, Linux gets over complicated at times!

I'm running Fedora 4 and I've tried installing Wy60, but get the error
message "no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH".
I therefore assume I need to install a C compiler program. But what
and where from?
I've gone back to the Add/Remove Applications, but don't know what I
should be installing.

Dale Dellutri wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2006 14:38:21 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > I've searched the newgroups and this question is being asked by many
> > people, but there aren't any pointers to software yet.
>
> > I'm looking for a GUI terminal emulator to run on a Fedora 4
> > workstation client, that will telnet to a server. This must emulate
> > wyse60. It only needs to telnet to a server and key mapping would be
> > nice, but not essential.
>
> > I've tried Ericom's PowerTerm InterConnect which does the job, but it
> > is expensive and very difficult to get installed. Surely there is an
> > alternative out there?
>
> You can try Wy60, available at:
> http://gutschke.com/wy60/
> or
> http://freshmeat.net/releases/86405/
>
> It runs in an xterm and translates as needed.
>
> --
> Dale Dellutri <(E-Mail Removed)> (lose the Q's)

I got one step further with trying to install/compile Wy60. I've done
a "yum install gcc" which has made the ./install work.
Now the "make" command doesn't work and I just get loads of wy60 errors
with this routine.
Why is just getting a simple Wyse terminal emulator just so difficult
with Linux. I'm starting to miss Microsoft already!

Matt wrote:
> Thanks. I'm trying Wy60, but I can't install it.
> I'm a Linux beginner, so I'm picking this up as a I go along. Being
> used to Microsoft for 20+ years, Linux gets over complicated at times!
>
> I'm running Fedora 4 and I've tried installing Wy60, but get the error
> message "no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH".
> I therefore assume I need to install a C compiler program. But what
> and where from?
> I've gone back to the Add/Remove Applications, but don't know what I
> should be installing.
>
> Dale Dellutri wrote:
> > On 31 Jul 2006 14:38:21 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > > I've searched the newgroups and this question is being asked by many
> > > people, but there aren't any pointers to software yet.
> >
> > > I'm looking for a GUI terminal emulator to run on a Fedora 4
> > > workstation client, that will telnet to a server. This must emulate
> > > wyse60. It only needs to telnet to a server and key mapping would be
> > > nice, but not essential.
> >
> > > I've tried Ericom's PowerTerm InterConnect which does the job, but it
> > > is expensive and very difficult to get installed. Surely there is an
> > > alternative out there?
> >
> > You can try Wy60, available at:
> > http://gutschke.com/wy60/
> > or
> > http://freshmeat.net/releases/86405/
> >
> > It runs in an xterm and translates as needed.
> >
> > --
> > Dale Dellutri <(E-Mail Removed)> (lose the Q's)