[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Andreas Gruhl]

Joukj schrieb am Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2022 um 08:49:40 UTC+1:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> 
> > I believe GS and GV are written in C. And VMS C is VMS C. So it should 
> > be possible to get those running on VMS x86-64. Maybe someone 
> > even already got them running. 

A least we are trying...

> >
> Sure it is C and they run both on Alpha and Itanium. 
> 
> But the problem at this moment (please correct me if not true) is that 
> for displaying they use DECWindows. I thought I read somewhere that on 
> x86-64 this still is a dummy library which only is included to get no 
> linking problems for programs that also have a text-interface I did not 
> see in any of the road maps that this will be changed in the near 
> future. Probably a X-server is not needed, but a client library would be 
> welcome, so that we can display on a "remote" server (i.e. by tunneling 
> via an ssh-connection) 
> 
Here I can offer some good news: DEC Windows and Motif run on X86
VMS 9.2 without any issues. We use them heavily.
There is no X-server, however, but we do not need it.

Andreas 
> 
> Regards 
> Jouk