[Info-vax] Web Browsers on OpenVMS

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Thu Jan 3 09:27:09 EST 2013


In article <kc2apm$n9u$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
> Why not have a discussion with your manager or your IT folks, as they 
> have not kept your software current for whatever reason, and they 
> haven't provided a tool that you're looking for.

   They do have a process in place to keep things somewhat up to date.
   But they don't force updates until they have to.

> If your OS X system is locked down, then you'll need administrative 
> access to install Xcode.  If you have that access, ask to borrow a 
> distro from IT.

   Only IT has admin access.

> That you're still running 10.6 is a comparatively inauspicious start.   
> While there are cases where that's appropriate to have boxes still 
> running 10.6 around, your IT folks (and you) will want to have a plan 
> for getting to 10.7 or 10.8, or migrating off of the OS X platform, or 
> whatever is locally appropriate.

   10.7 is known to break some of our COTS applications.




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