[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <b588b2ee-c0c1-44a9-bc28-0e80e844ccffn at googlegroups.com>,
Oswald Knoppers <oswald.knoppers at gmail.com> writes: 

> Op woensdag 18 november 2020 om 06:41:07 UTC+1 schreef Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> > In article <rp1l3q$f6p$1... at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> > <seao... at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 
> > 
> > > Phillip is fond of previous-millennium computing, and the preferences, 
> > > perceptions, norms and configurations of DEC and of OpenVMS from that 
> > > era.
> > I also listen to music from the 60s and 70s and practically nothing from 
> > this millennium. I am happy.
> 
> Why not use wget to download files directly to the VMS systems.

That works if one has a URL which can be directly downloaded.  However, 
some sites have moved to JavaScript, perhaps there are captchas, and so 
on.  For direct URLs, Lynx works fine as well.