Asynchronous Terminal Emulation

The Asynchronous Terminal Emulation (ATE) program enables terminals on the operating system to emulate a terminal, thus allowing users a means of connecting to most other systems that support asynchronous terminals.

ATE accomplishes this by making the remote system see a terminal either as a system's display or as a DEC VT100 terminal. The VT100 option allows the user to log in to systems that do not support their terminal, but do support VT100 terminals.

ATE uses both direct (cabled) and modem connections to communicate between the user's system and a remote system as shown in the following illustration.

Depending upon the connection type used, the user can configure ATE to connect either to a system in the next room or to a system across the country. For a direct connection, the user must know the port to use on their system. For a modem connection, users must know the port to use on his system and the telephone number of the remote system. Users must also have a login ID and password on the remote system.

ATE enables a user to run commands on the remote system, send and receive files, and use the xmodem protocol to check the data integrity in the files transferred between systems. The user can also capture and file incoming data from the remote system.

Note: You must be a member of the UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program (UUCP) group in order to use ATE. A user with root authority uses System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) to install individual users in groups.