Re: Standard (needed) GUI App Launcher

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Chapman
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:58:59 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: (I'm not going to experiment with it. How does z/OS Java display graphics, anyway?) Via X-Windows. Start an X-server on your PC, set the appropriate environment variables, then fire up the JVM from USS. I've done

Re: Standard (needed) GUI App Launcher

2014-11-24 Thread Dave Salt
many OSes have terminal commands that take an object name as an argument and launch the associated application. For example, a browser for a URL; a file manager for a directory; or an editor for a text file. SimpList works like that. A single line of code (such as in a user written REXX

Re: Standard (needed) GUI App Launcher

2014-11-24 Thread Tom Brennan
Windows start - but most likely a Windows terminal emulator would use the ShellExecute function to start an external browser session. About 6 months ago I was working on compiling Info-Zip (c source code). Wiki claims it is The Third Most Portable Program in the World, so you can imagine all

Re: Standard (needed) GUI App Launcher

2014-11-24 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Tom Brennan t...@tombrennansoftware.com wrote: Windows start - but most likely a Windows terminal emulator would use the ShellExecute function to start an external browser session. About 6 months ago I was working on compiling Info-Zip (c source code). Wiki

Re: Standard (needed) GUI App Launcher

2014-11-24 Thread Tom Brennan
I had ASCII trouble with Info-zip too. Someone apparently added code to ignore the -a (ascii conversion) option if the input data looks binary. Well, EBCDIC text looked binary to the new code, so the -a option wouldn't work at all on MVS. That's one downside to #ifdef's - you really need to