[Info-vax] Ghostscript and HTML Browser on X86

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <1ae27098-c7b2-444c-85ea-f62df1b5600an at googlegroups.com>,
Andreas Gruhl <gruhl at isidata.de> writes: 

> You do not neccessarily need a web-server.

Right.

> We use the browser to display HTML-files which we have just generated on
> the VMS server. That's the equivalent of launching a text editor to
> allow the user to inspect a freshly created text file. The difference
> is, that HTML offers enormous advantages over text files (rendering,
> navigation, table layouts etc.). By using a local browser we can
> directly point it to the desired file (and even some location within
> this file). And we enable the output image to flow directly through the
> already established X Protocol connection without the need to open
> additional communication ports. Works excellent on Alpha and Itanium. 

If you don't need images, LYNX works and would probably build easily.