[Info-vax] the document describing the system service transfer vector

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/19/2022 8:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 9/19/22 19:56, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 9/19/2022 6:55 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 9/19/22 17:40, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>> In article <jorsn3Fqts8U1 at mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns 
>>>> <usenet at andyburns.uk> writes:
>>>>> VAXman wrote:
>>>>>> Andy Burns writes:
>>>>>>> hb wrote:
>>>>>>>> https://vmsbug.eng.vmssoftware.com/mediawiki/index.php/File:ModularExecutive.docx
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> not WPS-Plus?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That URL is invalid.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it works internally?
>>>>
>>>> Even if it DID work, what would I do with it?  No WEENDOZE to read 
>>>> it. What's
>>>> wrong with PDF? Where the P is Portable.
>>>
>>> Don't need Windows to read a docx file.  It really has nothing to do
>>> with Windows.  I read them on Linux and MacOS all the time.
>>
>> It just requires something that reads OOXML.
>>
>> MS Office (Windows) and the various LibreOffice/OpenOffice variants
>> (Windows, Linux, macOS, *BSD) can read and write.
>>
>> Lotus Notes (Windows, Linux, macOS, i), WordPerfect (Windows) and
>> Google Docs (web) can read.
>>
>> But I don't think anything on VMS can read them.
> 
> Who's fault is that?

Is it anybodys fault?

Word processors is a desktop application.

That has not been VMS'es domain for decades.

Arne