[Info-vax] HPE OpenVMS "free" software download pages - CIFS, OpenSSL, etc

[Carl Friedberg]

Hi Jon, yeah, me too, but that was many years ago. That was when it was one
company, but they just did not care.  Carl

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:50 PM Jon Pinkley via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 1:52:01 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> ---snip---
> >
> > Changing the landing page is one thing. Changing all the direct links
> > to point to the same generic index page is just idiotic.
> >
> > At the very least, HPE could have done redirects from the old location
> > to the new location for each of the manuals.
> >
> > I don't know if Google will eventually pick up the new locations, and
> > re-index the VMS manuals but at the moment most of the HPE VMS search
> > results are gone and the ones which are remaining all go to this new
> > generic index page.
> >
> >
> > Simon.
>
> I used to contribute to the HP ITRC OpenVMS forum, but when the ITRC was
> replaced by new forum software, they never converted the links to internal
> posts, so now many posts which answered questions with links to other
> related posts, now have only dead links, and the usefulness of the forums
> was greatly diminished.  I stopped posting after that.  I don't think I was
> the only one that stopped contributing at than time.
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