[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <gTIUD.276972$_35.51231 at fx46.iad>, Mark Daniel
<mark.daniel at wasd.vsm.com.au> writes: 

> > It starts when you download something in a web browser.  If I want that
> > file on VMS, if I have no browser on VMS, I have to transfer it from
> > another machine.
> 
> $ curl
> curl: try 'curl --help' for more information
> %CURL-E-FAILED_INIT, failed init
> $ wget
> wget: missing URL
> Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
> 
> Try `wget --help' for more options.
> $

Yes, these are possible, but sometimes one needs to download something 
directly visible in a web browser.  I don't want to have to run the 
browser elsewhere, copy the (potentially very long and/or not easy to 
remember and/or generated on the fly) URL and get it to the VMS command 
line.