[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-14 kl. 12:53, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <mn.72e97e4b093ace32.104627 at invalid.skynet.be>, Marc Van Dyck
> <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> writes:
> 
>> If I wanted to run a VMS-based web browser on my desktop, I would just
>> run any of the many Xwindows emulation packages available on the market
>> (mind you, Excursion still works on Windows 7, I use it) and fire the
>> browser from any of my datacenter VMS systems with display on my desk.
> 
> So your desk is not VMS but the browser is running on a VMS server?  If
> so, which browser?

I think he was just speculating around a hypotetical setup. No one would
run the browser on VMS in real life, of course.

> 
>> So that capability still exists if you really need it.
> 
> I don't follow you.  I want to be able to directly download from the web
> to VMS and upload from VMS to the web.

There are several non-browser tools to automate that, if you need.

For tasks like patch download and similar it is much easier to use
a browser on a standard desktop environment and then transfer the
patch files using any file transfer tool, usually FTP based.

Read my lips, there will *never* be a "modern" browser running on VMS
servers having features up to date with browsers on desktop systems.

> I want to type on my LK411 when typing something in a web form.

To this I can just say, "no comment".