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

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <00ACE716.157DC892 at sendspamhere.org>,
> 	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:

>>>> 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.
>> NEWSRDR was MadGoat/freeware.  It works fine for textual usenet reading and
>> posting.  However, if you're one to frequent the alt.binaries.some.peculiar.
>> fetish.or.bizarre.sexual.perversion.pictures.and.videos then, you're out of
>> luck unless you can get wood with ASCII art! :)
> 
> OK, so, if this started as VMS software, was never available on anything
> but VMS, was written and is maintained by a VMS expert, what could I
> possibly do with it?  :-)

What do you want to do with it?

If it works and ain't broke, then there's nothing to fix.

I'm tempted to take a look to see if it's DECwindows based or character 
call terminal based.