client for COMPAQ Alpha OpenVMS

[ktyong]

Hi,
Will there be a version of client for OpenVMS?

[Brian the Fist]

Not likely. Isn't VMS extinct?

[jkeating]

We still run it on two systems at work All of the engineering and estimating programs are in Fortran running on OpenVMS.

[ktyong]

I thought i am the only person making a jurassic request. we have more than a dozen of Alpha running VMS in the office. They are quite idle during night time and weekends. Some of them are idle throughout the day, thought i can make it for good use.

[Jodie]

Less extinct than BeOS for sure...

[Brian the Fist]

The requirements for me doing a port are:

A C compiler
A POSIX-compliant operating system
preferably an RSH server on the systyem
The ncurses library (however this can be ported since source is available)
A physical machine with the OS installed, on site.

This last requirement is usually the stumbling block We have no OpenVMS Alpha machine to play with. And I emphasize that the machine must be local, I cannot build ports on remote machines.
If someone wants a new port AND can find a spare machine to donate, we'd be happy to add it if it meets the above criteria.

[ktyong]

too bad for me then....