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

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