John,
Always enjoy your posts!
Have you considered buying VMWare for Linux and running (a licensed copy
of) Windows under Linux as an application?
It's attractive because (i) you can run any windows app (ii) and if that
app insists on an older version of Windows, install that version of
windows into a VM and bob's your uncle (iii) it is just S-O C-O-O-L!!!!
Jim
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Sent: 6 Sep 2005 04:59
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Subject: Non-Windows version of IBM Softcopy Librarian?
Is there such a beastie? I would really prefer to have a z/OS based, or
even Linux based version of this utility. Is there one? If not, how much
trouble would I be in if I were to try to create one? I am running the
Windows based one on my home system. But it uses my Linux based HTTP
proxy (squid) because I don't let my Windows system out onto the
Internet. I have reviewed my Squid logs and found the host name of the
IBM server as well as the names of the control files. I have looked at
the control files and they are simply text files with more variable
information in them. It is fairly likely that even I could write a
replacement program. Most likely in Perl, but maybe even in Java. Both
Perl and Java are available for both the z/OS and Linux systems (Windows
too, of course). I guess that it will depend on how irritated I get with
Windows again.
If you're wondering why I'm using my home system for this, it is because
my work has a "packet shaper" which reduces my ftp speed to about 4Kb/s
in order to conserve bandwidth for higher priority work.
--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
UICI Insurance Center
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