22 Mar
2000
22 Mar
'00
12:42 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote:
> > 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.
Checking DECUS is painful at best, there doesn't
seem to be any kind of an
index, at least not that I've found. I think it was the Freeware CD that I
found something at.
I don't ahve their archice on my system so there is little I can do for
you short of making the inquery for you.
Check simtel?!?!? I remember the old Simtel-20 DOS
archive, but what are
you refering to?
Try FTP://www.SIMTEL.NET
What can I say, elm is what I got started on. I think
the Newsreader is
MXRN, it came off the internet solutions for OpenVMS CD-ROM. Isn't
FreeForte a Windows app? I'm still trying to find a decent text based
it is but they had one similar for vax and decwin.
newsreader for VMS that doesn't puke, I got one
running that looked like it
might be OK, but it pukes on the number of newsgroups my ISP carries, before
it ever gets through the alt. hierarchy.
With the constant changes to the web and the need to use the latest
browser plus have both Nyetscrap and Internetexploder anything for the vax
is likely to puke.
Look at the bright side using a PC to surf the web is ok. Why? Both do
little with lots of flash and real work gets done elsewhere. ;)
It's wierd, when using VMS I prefer primarily text
based apps, while under
UNIX I prefer GUI apps (except 'elm' and 'tin').
Same here. then again I prefer anything that hides unix as it's unlike
everything else I am ultra comfortable with.
Allison