OT: view pdf file on a unix system

[Dennis Malen]

Correction, it is viewing it through the thin client and the tinyterm 
emulator while I am viewing unix through the emulator.

Dennis Malen
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: OT: view pdf file on a unix system


> On 6/15/2011 5:25 PM, Dennis Malen wrote:
>> We are on a thin client and rdp into unix.
>
> And...???
>
> You are saying that your Unix box can already view PDF files.  But you are 
> also saying that it can only view them if they're stored remotely on a 
> Windows box, which sounds like a very strange restriction to not be able 
> to access locally-stored files.
>
> So, I ask again, what command to you use to view a PDF file on the Unix 
> box, when the PDF is stored on a Windows box?
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kenneth Brody"<kenbrody at spamcop.net>
> [...]
>>> On 6/15/2011 3:44 PM, Dennis Malen wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> No problem if we are relegated to keeping the PDF on the windows side 
>>>> and
>>>> viewing from Unix. Just want to see whether I can view from Unix when 
>>>> the
>>>> PDF resides in UNIX.
>>>
>>> Hold on... You mean you already have everything you need to view PDFs on
>>> the Unix box, if the PDF is stored on a Windows box?  I find it very 
>>> hard
>>> to believe that the same program would be unable to view the PDF stored
>>> locally on the Unix box itself.
>>>
>>> What command do you use to view a PDF on the Unix box, when the PDF is
>>> stored on a Windows box?
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody