Re: RE : Simple request

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 9:07 am, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> You can map the IFS directory to a network drive on the PC. You don't
> need to save it to the PC, unless you want to.
>
> Your green screen session can know what is the IP address of the user.
> There is an API, QDCRDEVD (Retrieve Device Description), that can give
> you this. There is sample code on the midrange-l web site. It might
> even be mine.  ;-)
>
> Then you would need an rexecd (remote execution server) on the PC. Or
> maybe Client Access' Remote Execution feature can use TCP/IP - then
> you're set.
>
> Then use RUNRMTCMD, using the IP address you got earlier, to start
> Acrobat, pointing at the document on the mapped drive.
>
> This can all be done by the code that processes option 9, as I'm sure
> you know.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> Vern

Been there, done that ;-) We use a customised version of one of my free
utilities[1] that uses @riadne Software's CoolSpools/400[2] to do the
conversion to pdf. In our case it's used by people dialling in through
our RAS box that have the file copied locally first then fires up the
Acrobat reader. It seems to work well with just one option (a 'P' in this
case) to take against the spoolfile.

Mind you, I don't know how you could achieve this without either a rexecd
or FTP server on the client, and Stephane seemed to indicate that this
wasn't what they wanted. Personally I really like RUNRMTCMD as long as
it's on a LAN and reasonable security precautions are in place. Being
able to open up a spoolfile in a 132x66 window on my Linux box from an
AS/400 option is very handy :)

Regards, Martin
[1] http://www.dbg400.net/usroutq.html
[2] http://www.ariadnesoftware.co.uk
--
martin@dbg400.net  jamaro@firstlinux.net  http://www.dbg400.net        /"\
DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities - AS/400 / iSeries Open        \ /
Source free test environment tools and others (file/spool/misc)         X
[this space for hire]  ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML mail & news  / \