OT: view pdf file on a unix system

Dennis Malen dmalen at malen.com
Wed Jun 15 13:14:41 PDT 2011


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Dennis Malen
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: OT: view pdf file on a unix system


> ---- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
>
>> We are sitting in a Thin Client which RDP's into a Unix box which uses
>> a terminal emulator.
>
> So, for the purposes of my original reply, you *are* trying to run the
> PDF viewer *on the Unix box*, accessing a local file there.
>
> Your thin-client talks RDP to an RDP server which is the face of a Unix
> X-server, on which is in turn running a terminal emulator to run your
> filePro programs -- *all* the binaries here are running on Unix except
> your RDP viewer, and you need the PDF viewer to run there as well.
>
> First: pull up a shell prompt in that terminal emulator, and tell us the
> results of
>
> $ uname -a
>
> Cheers,
> -- jr 'See?  See, Mark?  :-)' a
> -- 
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