[Info-vax] somewhat off-topic: command line on iOS

Phillip Helbig undress to reply helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
Mon Jan 4 06:21:18 EST 2021


In article <rsupou$rt5$1 at dont-email.me>, David Wade <g4ugm at dave.invalid>
writes: 

> > I really don't like Windows.  I don't like linux.  I don't like the fact
> > that there isn't a modern browser on VMS.
> 
> You don't like LINUX but you do like the multiple walled gardens that 
> make up the Apple empire. 

Apple is good at what it does.  My wife has an iPhone and a MacBook, my 
children have iPad Air, I have an iPad pro.  We've never had any problem 
with them; they just work out of the box.  That is the goal and it is 
accomplished.  Practically no work for me.  Perhaps they aren't the 
right tools for the job, but that isn't the fault of Apple.  Actually, a 
MacBook or whatever WOULD be the right tool for the job, but the real 
problem is the combination of lack of a modern web browser and sites 
which are much too complicated (otherwise I could use Lynx for almost 
everything I do, which I did until many sites implemented bells and 
whistles with JavaScript and so on so that one needs a modern GUI to 
navigate it).  It seems like overkill to have something like a laptop 
merely got get files from my VMS user disk to the web or vice versa, 
hence I was hoping to somehow solve this problem using stuff I already 
have.

> application to run when a PDF file is downloaded...

If I look at a PDF in the browser on an iPad it just appears on the 
screen.

> https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ftpmanager-ftp-sftp-client/id525959186

Thanks; I'll have a look.




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