[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Call - 08:00 EDT 16 Sep 2021

[Joukj]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <mailman.5.1631235599.20579.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
> <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> writes: 
> 
>> The next conference call for the Open Source on OpenVMS community is
>> scheduled for Thursday, 16 September at 08:00 EDT.
> 
>> We hope to have your involvement and participation!!!
> 
> I hope to find the time to participate more in the future, not just in 
> the conference call but also actually doing something.
> 
> Something to think about: LaTeX and associated software is used by a 
> huge number of people.  Much of it was developed on VMS.  (Leslie 
> Lamport wrote it while at DEC, but perhaps in Tops-20 and not VMS.  In 
> any case, along with (UN)ZIP it is one of the most portable programs.)  
> It is still under active development and, amazingly, is better at many 
> things than more modern software.  I'm still using a [TEXMF...] tree 
> put together by Ralf Gärtner from a freeware disk from a quarter of a 
> century ago.  From time to time I've added some missing packages and so 
> on, and it is good enough.  However, it would be nice to be able to 
> easily update it, or even do a fresh install.
> 
> Two approaches are worth considering.  One would be getting the TeXLive 
> distribution to build out of the box on VMS.  The other would be to have 
> a minimal distribution which would automatically fetch anything found to 
> be missing from a CTAN mirror somewhere.
> 
Good idea Phillip. Texlive on OpenVMS would be best, since than it will 
be "compatible" with linux systems and one will be able to exchange all 
documents.Writing documents is always collaborating with others 
(probably not on OpenVMS)

Hope to "see" you next thursday.


          Jouk