On Wed, 5 May 2010 20:27:33 -0700 Marcel Dan <marcel...@nwvd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been unable to get thinkorswim connected to the TDAmeritrade
> server on OpenBSD.
>
> Has anyone used thinkorswim from TDAmeritrade on OpenBSD?
>
> thanks,
>
> Marcel
You need to provide more information. What *exactly* are you trying to
do, how are you trying to do it, what is your configuration, and what if
any error messages do you get in your xterm?
It's been a few years (2007), but yes, I had ThinkOrSwim running on
OpenBSD at one point in time. It was only running with a "demo"
account, so I doubt TDAmeritrade was involved, but I'm not certain
(e.g. TDAmeritrade *might* have been the source of the quote streams
for demo accounts, but I really don't know for certain).
If you're not running from a xterm, you should be.
$ cd /place/where/tos/is/installed
$ java -jar launcher.jar
If you want more debug info:
$ java -debug -jar launcher.jar
Though the above should get you the vast majority of status/error
messages, you should also keep an eye on the output of your console
(VT1).
You'll need the typical java settings in your environment (or in
your ~/.kshrc). You'll need to ln(1) whatever java version you're using
to /usr/local/java and /usr/lcoal/share/java if you have multiple
versions of java installed, as well as set up your classpath. A little
shell script can handle it:
# Java Stuff
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java
CLASSPATH=./
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAVA_HOME/lib
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/rt.jar
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/usr/local/share/java/classes
export CLASSPATH
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/jre/bin
In 2007 the ThinkOrSwim folks liked to claim compatibility with ancient
java versions (e.g. v1.1), but they really don't do proper testing to
make sure their claims are accurate. From my testing in 2007, at least
Java 1.5 was actually required.
My notes also mention needing to run
$ touch thinkorswim.lax
in the ./TOS/ directory to get rid of an error message on startup since
the file was not created by default. This bug was reported, but I'm not
sure if it was ever fixed.
NOTE: Though TOS ran fine for me with a demo account, things have
undoubtedly changed in their software since 2007.
jcr
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