SUMMARY: ODS 1.0 or Higher for SunOS 4.1.3
QUESTION:
I submitted the following message:
Dear Gurus,
I am trying to configure all the answerbooks I have in a single
server machine, and reach it from 5 other clients. I just can use
it on the server so far, I mean, I can't configure the clients
display to receive the information from the server.
Is there a way to do so?
TIA.
THANKS:
jafar@eviene.com (Jafar Shameem)
fpardo@tisny.com (Frank Pardo)
"Alfredo Sola" <asola@intelideas.com>
leach@OCE.ORST.EDU (Tom Leach)
gmp@adc.com (Gregory M Polanski)
"Gary W. Cook" <gcook@netcom.com>
Ray Brownrigg <Ray.Brownrigg@isor.vuw.ac.nz>
Jens Fischer <jefi@kat.ina.de>
SOLUTION:
I had 3 different points of view, according to the answers I got:
1. It is fully explained in the manual, how to configure the server.
My experience has shown that it is a half-truth. It won't work
with any X-terminal, at least with those I tried. But, to my
problem it has worked.
To do so, Jafar Shameem, has suggested:
set up the AB_CARDCATALOG variable to point to the ab_cardcatalog file
which has path to all the installed answerbooks
use :
/usr/openwin/bin/ab_admin -file 'the main ab_cardacatalog file'
-merge 'the new answerbooks ab_cardcatalog'
the filesystem containing the answerbooks should be mounted on the clients
ofcourse.
2. Some other guys have suggested to simply abandon the DPS software
which, according to their opinions is complicated and, sometimes, buggy.
My experiences has shown that they are closest to the truth. They suggest,
on the other hand, to use any other postscript browser, like, GhostScript,
for example, and try to acess the ps repository directly. The only disad-
vantage would be the loss of the links, which sometimes are very useful.
3. Some other guys has sent me their scripts:
Here is one from Tom Leach:
The csh script:
#!/bin/sh
AB_CARDCATALOG=/home/server/local/answerbooks/OCE_card_catalog
OCE_card_catalog; export AB_CARDCATALOG
/usr/openwin/bin/answerbook $*
Part of the OCE_card_catalog file:
#<Card Catalog> version 1
#
# This file was generated by the AnswerBook installation script
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND.
#
id=SUNWab_47_1: title=Solaris 2.3 System Administrator AnswerBook:
tocpath=/home/server/local/answerbooks/os/solaris2.3/SUNWaadm/toc:
pspath=/home/server/local/answerbooks/os/solaris2.3/SUNWaadm/ps:
indexpath=/home/server/local/answerbooks/os/solaris2.3/SUNWaadm/index:
#<Card Catalog> version 1
#
# This file was generated by the AnswerBook installation script
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND.
#
id=SUNWab_28_2: title=Solaris 2.3 on Sun Hardware AnswerBook:
tocpath=/home/server/local/answerbooks/os/solaris2.3/SUNWabhdw/toc:
pspath=/home/server/local/answerbooks/os/solaris2.3/SUNWabhdw/ps:
indexpath=/home/server/local/answerbooks/os/solaris2.3/SUNWabhdw/index:
#<Card Catalog> version 1
#
# This file was generated by the AnswerBook installation script
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND.
#
id=SUNWab_68_1: title=DiskSuite 4.0 AnswerBook:
tocpath=/home/server/local/answerbooks/apps/disksuite4.0/SUNWabmd/toc:
pspath=/home/server/local/answerbooks/apps/disksuite4.0/SUNWabmd/ps:
indexpath=/home/server/local/answerbooks/apps/disksuite4.0/SUNWabmd/index:
Now, another, from Gregory Polanski:
ghandi% head -20 /tools/SUNWaadm/ab_cardcatalog.master
#<Card Catalog> version 1
#
# This file was generated by cardcatadmin.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND.
#
:id=SUNWab_24_1: \
:version=: \
:title=Sun Online DiskSuite 2.0 Administration Guide AnswerBook: \
:tocpath=/tools//SUNWabmd/_data: \
:pspath=/tools//SUNWabmd/_data: \
:indexpath=/tools//SUNWabmd/_data/sr_index/SUNW24_1:
#
:id=SUNWab_20_1 \
: title=SunLink X.25 8.0.2 AnswerBook \
: tocpath=/tools/SUNWabx25/toc \
: pspath=/tools/SUNWabx25/ps \
: indexpath=/tools/SUNWabx25/index:
#
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