[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <keq8op$rn3$1 at online.de>,
	helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article <anas2aFlgnoU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
> (Bill Gunshannon) writes: 
> 
>> Well, I have seen nmerous people here lament the fact that the only
>> version of emacs available on VMS is rather dated.  Are you saying
>> that there really is no one who wants a newer emacs on VMS?
> 
> Are these VMS types, or unix types who don't know EDT or other VMS 
> editors?

Don't know.  Look back at the archives and see who they were.

>> >                        and news client
>> 
>> Hmmm...  I wonder if Knews could be made to work?  That has
>> always been my favorite.
> 
> NEWSRDR?!

Sorry, don't know it.  But if it is real VMS only software why
has it not been kept up?  I was thinking more along the lines
of those programs that have Unix versions at 7.2 while the VMS
version is still at 3.1.  I am not likely to modernize a program
but re-porting a newer version is a possibility.  What I have is
time, not knowledge specific to VMS or these programs.

bill
 

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