Aaaaahhhh... 'Tis Good to be Back!!!

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Wed Mar 22 12:34:26 2000

> OK, now I'm curious. I can see TPU and LSE for text editing, but word
> processing? Or are you then sending the result through TeX, or something

You could use tex or RNO, I had a set of scripts that would do the desired
operation. the script language was TECO with many added extensions.

> like TeX? Wasn't DECcalc a commercial offering along the lines of DECwrite?
> If so, as far as I know it's not available to hobbyists. I'd love to know
> about a good spreadsheet available to hobbyists myself!

Dunno, check decus, check simtel.

> Good point, Apache is now available, although I gather one VMS there are
> better solutions still for a VMS based web server. There is a very nice
> newsreader for DECwindows who's name escapes me. Supposidly 'tin' will
> compile on VMS, but it looks like it's been *years* since anyone succeeded.
> I've gotten it to compile and link, but it won't do anything. If you're like
> me and prefer 'elm' for eMail, then give PTmail V4.1.2 a try.

Elm eww. I like Vaxmail, I'd rther use that. News reader isn't that
FreeForte or some such?

On the whole it's possible to port any unix app to VMS if the IO is well
behaved. At most you need a shim inbetweeen. The first kermit I'd used
was a unix port, pain to install but worked ok.

Allison
Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 12:34:26 GMT