I don't know if it will work on 5.5 as well, but I tried the
following on 7.0 a few minutes ago: Using the text2pdf program
of http://www.ep.cs.nott.ac.uk/pdfcorner/ that Robert Mills
mentioned in a recent posting (you can find compiled binaries
for MPE at http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/ if you
don't want to compile that small utility on your own system),
I created a longish text file with LINKEDIT LISTXL XL.PUB.SYS
and converted it to PDF format. To view it from the PC side,
I simply placed the .pdf file in a directory that was shared
via Samba/iX, so I could use a double-click it on the PC with
no need for explicit file transfer. Seemed to work reasonably
well (but I did not proof-read all the 396 pages ;-)

Some details snipped from by session are attached below...

:file out=./big.txt;rec=,,b;disc=123456789
:linkedit "listxl xl.pub.sys" > *out

:/bin/wc "-l big.txt"
  25323    big.txt

:file in=./big.txt,old
:file out=./big.pdf;rec=,,b;disc=123456789;save
:xeq ./text2pdf -A4 < *in > *out

:listfile ./@ ,2

 CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----  FILENAME
         SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX

           1B  BA     1652409  123456789   1     8192  7  *  big.pdf
           1B  BA     1468713  123456789   1     5744  6  *  big.txt
 NMPRG   128W  FB         674        674   1      688  3  *  text2pdf

:# now double-clicked the .pdf from PC as this directory is
:# shared with Samba/iX -- around 396 pages in those 1.5 MB

By the way, Samba and text2pdf for MPE/iX are both free Open Source.

Regards, Lars.

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