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This Wiki contains documentation for the x3270 family of IBM 3270 terminal emulators.

Interactive emulators

 * x3270 is the original version. It is a graphical interactive 3270 emulator that runs on Linux, Solaris, MacOS (with XQuartz installed), FreeBSD and other POSIX -based operating systems.
 * wx3270 is a modern interactive graphical 3270 emulator for Microsoft Windows.
 * c3270 is an interactive 3270 emulator that runs on a character-mode terminal on POSIX systems. A character-mode terminal can be an emulator such as xterm, gnome-terminal, kterm, a MacOS Terminal window, or a Linux console, or a real hardware terminal such as a DEC VT100.
 * wc3270 is an interactive 3270 emulator that runs in a console window on Microsoft Windows.

Screen scraping tools

 * s3270 is screen-scraping tool. (On Windows, it is also called ws3270.)
 * tcl3270 is a wrapper around s3270 that facilitates writing Tcl scripts for screen scraping.

Daemon processes

 * pr3287 is an IBM 3287 printer emulator. It can be used in conjunction with one of the interactive terminal emulators to associate a printer with the login session, or it can run standalone to direct mainframe print jobs to a printer on a workstation. (On Windows, it is also called wpr3287.)
 * b3270 is a generic back end for 3270 emulators. b3270 implements the 3270 protocol and host input/output, and communicates with a front end application using a simple XML-based protocol..

A note on versions
This wiki describes x3270 release 4.0 and wx3270 release 1.0. Much of the information pertains to earlier versions, but fair amount of it does not.