[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rp2kbp$6no$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
writes: 

> 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.

Of course, for reading something, as opposed to downloading it, many 
sites are not usable without a modern browser (although they could be).