OT: view pdf file on a unix system

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>

> AIX localhost 3 5 000187ACD700

Aha.  So Mark was right.

Dennis, man, you *really* need to find the AIX user group people, and get
in tight with them, wherever they are.

The thing you need to understand about AIX is that it's a *very* thing Unixy
looking skin over *VM*.  *Every* *single* *thing* you do on an AIX system,
admin-wise, is sui generis; it's worse than the symlink-farm that is SCO Unix.

That said, you need to look into finding a way to compile xpdf, gv or all
of KDE (which will include either KPDF or Okular), to get to where you want
to be.

Based on the information you've provided, it *is* possible to run your
PDF reader on the box in question, but the Cost Benefit Analysis for you
is going to be: is it *easier* to just drop the file in a Samba share
and hand it's (translated) pathname to the client to run the PDF reader
there?  It might not be.

That assumes, of course, that your client itself is not a *hardware* thin
client box, which is also unclear.

Cheers,
-- jra
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