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

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Richard Maher wrote:

> 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 :-( )

   All I'm trying to do is get (some of, more of) the software
I currently use on my main Alpha system onto an IA64 system.
Naturally, every step I take augments the task list instead of
shrinking it.

   I need some kind of GTK to build Vim, apparently not
anything particularly recent.  What I have on the Alpha seems
to be an HP-supplied GTK+ 1.2.10 kit from January 2003,
GTK1210-OPENVMS-A1.SFX_AXPEXE.  This seems to be good enough
for Vim 6.3, which is what I have on the Alpha.

      http://www.vim.org/

   Yes, Vim is a whiz-bang version of vi, and, with GTK, it can
be a whiz-bang version of vi with a more GUI.  I use it
primarily because I often run out of convenient DECterms:

      ALP $ create /terminal
      %LIB-F-INSEF, insufficient event flags

(Clicking on the almost-CDE terminal icon just fails silently.
Sigh.)

Occasionally, I use Vim because it has some useful feature or
other.  Back in the good-old days, when I sat at a Sun
workstation all day (using dtmail), I used Vim instead of vi.
If _I_ had to use plain vi for several months, I'd probably
slit my throat.  But I'm a slow learner.