[Info-vax] MicroVAX/VMS newbie, couple of questions

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Tone007 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I picked up a MicroVAX 3400 system running VMS 5.4 a few weeks ago and
> spent some time figuring out the basics (quite a bit of a learning
> curve) and getting it running and online with a copy of CMUIP I found
> floating around.  I've gotten it telnettable and FTPable (thanks to
> CMUIP including those,) but I'm wondering if there's a simple HTTP
> server around that'd run on 5.4.  I saw one that works with DECthreads
> (on VMS 5.5+ I guess?) but I haven't tried it since I don't see that
> it's supposed to be compatible.  Obviously a newer version of VMS
> might make things easier for me, unfortunately it's a DSSI system and
> the only media it'll take is a tape, and I'm not even sure the tape
> drive is working (no tapes to test with.)
> 
> I also stumbled across a couple of sites mentioning HECnet, that
> sounds like fun.  Anyone here play with that at all?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers you may be able to provide.

I don't believe that DEC provided such a thing with VMS V3.7 thru 
V5.5-2.  The web, in those days, was nowhere near as important as it is 
today.  I don't think the CMU package provided one either.  I might be 
wrong about that, I couldn't have used it if it had existed.

There might be some hope of a third party product though I know of none!
There might be freeware but again, I know of none.

Good luck!