Re: HTML to PDF Generator (X-Server on i)

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Walt

I'm very glad to hear you are getting the docs back. I had entered a 
comment on this on the IBM website - maybe you'll hear about it!

The respondent somehow did not understand my question, but I clariified 
it, so we shall see what happens. The respondent called me Mr. Coleman 
for some reason - something lost in translation, I guess!!  :-)

The 5799PTL also provides a VNC server in PASE, as I recall. That is 
what I used when I first worked with PTL maybe 6 or 8 years ago.

Of course, there are also the GNU Utilities - I forget now the part 
number - are they still available? If you know.

The information at the porting site was fantastic - I hope it will be 
available again.

Regards
Vern

On 8/6/2010 3:28 PM, Walt Madden wrote:
> Vern Hamberg wrote:
>    
> > We already have PTL installed on a box here, I'm disappointed that IBM
> > have chosen to break most of the links to the old PartnerWorld porting
> > site, where this was available.
> >
> > In the QAPTL library is a source file called README - that has some
> > installation and configuration information. Then there are the IFS
> > pars in /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/DeveloperTools&
> > /QIBM/ProdData/DeveloperTools that have some docs for some of the
> > stuff.
> >      
> I think most of this has been covered, but to summarize...
>
> X Windows support is built into PASE for i (SS1 Option 33).  Just set the
> DISPLAY environment variable to point to your X server (i.e. "export
> DISPLAY=<myXservert>:<display>" and then start your X application on i.
>
> If you have 5733SC1 installed and are running the sshd daemon (STRTCPSVR
> *SSHD on 6.1 and beyond), you can also connect via ssh and have X directed
> back to the desktop where you started the ssh client by using "ssh -Y" or
> "ssh -X".
>
> If you don't have an X server such as a Linux, AIX, etc desktop or cygwin on
> Windows you can use the VNC X server included with 5799PTL.  If you're on
> V5R4 or later be sure to get the V5R4 version of 5799PTL.  The VNC server in
> V5R4 of 5799PTL is much improved performance-wise from the earlier V4R5M1
> version.  5799PTL is a free web download from here:
> http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?rs=iseriest
>
> Finally, we're aware that the 5799PTL documentation links are broken and
> we're working to get them back...  At least the 5799PTL support email
> address still works:  rchqaptl at us dot ibm dot com so feel free to write
> with questions.
>
> -- Walt
>