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  Asked: Jun 25 2008   3:33 PM GMT
  Asked by: Lyd

Viewing PDF's from the AS/400


PDF, AS/400

Is there a way to view PDF's from the AS/400 or green screen? We already have PDF's converted, but need a way to say..press an F-key in an inquiry program and have it "spawn" a window containing the matching pdf for the data.

Thanks in advance!

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Last Answered: Jun 25 2008  3:41 PM GMT  by Gilly400





Hi,

If you're using Client Access, you should be able to use the PC Organiser to open a window with your PDF. Assuming your .PDF is on a drive J: (mapped to your IFS or shared folder) you could do something like this :-

STRPCCMD PCCMD('J:\Yourfile.pdf')

That should use the default .PDF viewer to open the file.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.
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Lyd  |   Jun 25 2008  4:34PM GMT

Thanks for the reponse..I tried to do just that…but in a DOS window, I got the following error message:

“C:\test.pdf is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.”

Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

 

Lyd  |   Jun 25 2008  5:05PM GMT

just figured it out…my file was named “test.pdf” instead of just “test”. Once I renamed it..it worked ike a charm. Thanks again!