# x3270 3.2 General Release

x3270 is an IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulator for the X window system.

Documentation is in the html directory. The files are:

Intro
  What x3270 is
Lineage
  Where x3270 came from (copyright stuff)
Build
  How to build and install x3270
FAQ
  Frequently Asked Questions (what to do when something goes wrong)
Attributes
  A translation table for 3270 field attributes
Resources
  Voluminous documentation of all the X resources used by x3270
Charset
  An explanation of x3270's use of fonts and character sets
Keymap
  How to create a custom x3270 keymap
Brackets
  How to get [ and ] to display correctly
New
  What's new in this release
Bugs
  What's broken in this release
Wishlist
  What isn't in this release
Y2K
  Year 2000 Compliance Statement

There is also a hypertext version of the x3270 man page, and of the man pages for x3270if, x3270-script and ibm_hosts.

Please read Build before going ahead and building the program. Also, if you have a problem, scan through FAQ; there are lots of interesting answers there.

Updates to x3270, as well as the current status of development and bugs, are available from the x3270 Web Page, http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814.

Updates are also available on ftp.x.org and several X11R6 mirror sites, usually in the /contrib/applications/x3270 directory.

Feel free to send comments, criticism, suggestions, complaints, etc., to Paul Mattes, Paul.Mattes@usa.net. Requests will be addressed as time and resources permit.

There is also an x3270 mailing list, which receives news about new releases. Send a message to Paul.Mattes@usa.net (a real person, with an automatic responses for certain subject lines) to get on the list.