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+tn3270 permits a full-screen, full-duplex connection from a UNIX machine
+to an IBM (or compatible) machine. tn3270 gives the appearance of being
+logged in to the remote machine from an IBM 3270 terminal. Of course,
+you must have an account on the machine to which you connect in order to
+log in. tn3270 looks to the user in many respects like the Yale ASCII
+Terminal Communication System II. tn3270 is actually a modification of
+the ARPANET TELNET user interface (see telnet(1)) which will, in certain
+circumstances, interpret and generate raw 3270 control streams.