HP-UX TN3270 Users Guide, March 1998

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Appendix E 325

Conﬁguring TN3270 Hosts from the Command Line

Overriding Host Domain Names

To override host domain names, enter the following on the command line:

tn_3270 -l domain[:port], domain[:port

Supply the following options and parameters:

-l

Speciﬁes that the host domain names conﬁgured in the

conﬁguration ﬁle are to be overridden by the domain

names speciﬁed on the command line.

domain

Speciﬁes the symbolic domain name or the

dotted-decimal Internet address of the TN3270 host.

port

Speciﬁes the TCP/IP port number that the host uses for

TN3270 data.

You can specify up to ten domain[:port] addresses, separated by

commas. These addresses are assigned to each session in turn. Two

consecutive commas indicate that no address is being assigned to the

session from the command line; the address speciﬁed in the conﬁguration

ﬁle is used instead.

If the command contains fewer addresses than the conﬁguration ﬁle,

addresses in the conﬁguration ﬁle that are not speciﬁcally overridden are

used. If the command contains more addresses than the conﬁguration

ﬁle (up to a maximum of ten), additional sessions are assigned, and you

can activate them as required.

For example, if you have three host records in your conﬁguration ﬁle,

whose domain ﬁelds are set to 1.2.3.4, 100.101.102.103, and

40.50.60.70, and you enter tn_3270 -l 99.99.99.99,,1.2.3.4,

the ﬁrst session will use address 99.99.99.99, the second session will

use address 100.101.102.103 (as conﬁgured in the conﬁguration ﬁle),

and the third session will use address 1.2.3.4.