[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <g8jk4lFpc7cU1 at mid.individual.net>, Hans Bachner
<hans at bachner.priv.at> writes: 

> > As have been said many times, a web *browser* is wasted money on VMS.
> > No sane person uses VMS as their "office desktop" today. [...]
> 
> I'm certainly not asking for a full desktop environment on OpenVMS, but 
> a reasonable/usable browser should be rather high on the list. Given the 
> fact that most support stuff (patches, kits, ...) is accessible through 
> a browser (only, in many cases), there should be a way to directly 
> download this stuff to a VMS box and not go through intermediate systems 
> with different OSs.

Right.

> Well, VSI offers their kits/ECOs on an SFTP server which changes 
> requirements a bit. But the old HP(E) interface into the patch website 
> was quite good, where you could look at details of individual ECO kits 
> and add them to your download list. I don't know how it looks today as 
> partners (DSPP/AllianceONE) have been locked out for quite a while now.
> 
> > And regarding a "GUI for VMS" in general, it is today a web server (on
> > VMS) and browsers (on some common office desktop platform).
> 
> This is correct, and, while much management is still done on the command 
> line and through scripting, more browser based tools at least for parts 
> which are used only occasionally would be very helpful.