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

David Wade g4ugm at dave.invalid
Mon Jan 4 17:23:47 EST 2021


On 04/01/2021 11:21, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.

Yes, using the default IPAD app which won't let me annotate it. If I 
have a Spanish Text book as a PDF in my iCloud and I want to open it in 
Adobe or Foxit edit it and save it back I have to run round in circles.

> 
>> https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ftpmanager-ftp-sftp-client/id525959186
> 
> Thanks; I'll have a look.
> 




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