[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-10-06, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> Oddly, the rest of the universe gets by with ssh, netcat, file shares 
> and related.    Sure, having an FTP client — or preferably FTPS or sftp 
> — embedded into RMS would be nice.
>

With an editor which can support ftps/sftp you can reach into
a multitude of platforms without the need for editor initialisation
files, installing macro collections etc on each system.

The frustrations of editing over 'console lines' which nearly but don't
quite emulate a real terminal can be a thing of the past too.

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