Telnet, Emulator ...and other issues

Question

I was assigned to maintain a .NET application that use .NET emulator to connect to legacy mainframe system. The application uses library called PowerTCP emulator. But I see people use Putty to connect. I hear lots of terms that I cannot make sense off, because I have no knowledge at all about mainframe / emulator / telnet world. Like I hear the terms (VT100, VT320...) and I have no idea what they are

Is there something on internet that describe the ABCs for connection with emulator in .NET?

Thanks

Answer 1

VT100, VT320 and what not are terminal types. There's not much to it. They support different feature sets. http://vt100.net/vt_history

I saw there was sample projects on the following site:

http://www.dart.com/ptemnet_samples.aspx

That might help. What kind of work are you doing to "maintain" these apps? Bugfixes or enhancements?