[Info-vax] GTK and/or up-to-date OpenVMS Porting Library for IA64?

[Richard Maher]

Hi Steven,

>    It's exactly the existence of all that (so-called)
> uselessware (which seems to annoy some people
> so much) which gives me hope of getting the stuff

I used "useless" in my previous post to describe my efforts at answering
your query and not to describe the various web-browsers on VMS (which I do
happen to consider useless but that's neither here nor there) It's just that
you spend a lot of time here and elsewhere assisting people with helpful
answers and advice and I wanted to acknowledge that I felt bad about wasting
your time before I went ahead with it anyway.

>    If HP supplying a Web browser for VMS makes
> it easier for me to build Vim on VMS, then, by all
> means, let them supply a Web browser for VMS.

Again this won't help you but for argument's sake can you please clarify
that you need a recent GTK ported to VMS so that you can build a copy of Vim
and that "Vim" is  a (wiz-bang?) GUI version of vi? Having had to cope with
vi for several months I'm at a loss to know what you're using it for (but
then I thought CRON on VMS was too ludicrous a concept for words only to
find that there are already several versions in existence :-( )

Anyway, none of my business; carry on. Maybe it's time to come out from
among them and be me seprate? Where'd Bob go again :-)

Regards Richard Maher

"SMS" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a1004113-4a41-4d51-bc4e-b5ad387c8bd7 at i18g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Richard Maher wrote:
> > [... yet another of the usual tirades ...]
>
>    It's exactly the existence of all that (so-called)
> uselessware (which seems to annoy some people
> so much) which gives me hope of getting the stuff
> I seek without having to redo it all myself.  I just
> don't know where it's hiding these days.
>
>    If HP supplying a Web browser for VMS makes
> it easier for me to build Vim on VMS, then, by all
> means, let them supply a Web browser for VMS.