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The Question is: I'm submitting this to Ask The Wizard mainly because an inquiry to VMS Product Management has gone unanswered for many months. That inquiry was about the "general isolation" of VMS systems from the "rest of the Internet" due to the lack of a couple of key "interchange" items. At that time, I inquired as to whether anyone would deal with the issue of handling ".pdf" files on VMS. Was there any plan for Adobe to possibly port Acrobat to OpenVMS/Motif, etc. The more serious issue today concerns ongoing support for Netscape. The current version on the openvms.digital.com website is lagging far behind the V4 ports available for other platforms. Is any work taking place on porting Netscape V4 to OpenVMS for either the VAX or AXP architecture? It was rather depressing to read about the upcoming demise of "VMS workstations" in another "Ask The Wizard" note. I hadn't heard of THAT particular WHAMMY before. Interestingly enough, details of this decision don't seem to exist outside of the Ask The Wizard pages (or if they do, they're not immediately obvious anyway). So, do I really finally have to give up and junk my VS4000/90 and AXP 3500 workstations simply because they're increasingly unable unable to interact with the outside world in a native fashion? I just learned today that, internally at Oracle, I'm going to *HAVE* to do something about my email access in just under two weeks. Goodbye "character mode." Netscape Communicator 4.0.6 or later will be required. I just hate the thought of having to remote it from an AIX box, or something like that just because there doesn't seem to be a VMS port available. Thanks, John The Answer is : PDF has been available for OpenVMS for some time now, in the form of the XPDF tool. Netscape Navigator Plus V5.0 for OpenVMS is expected this fall (in Beta) with general availability early next year (1999). When this software is available, it will be included in the factory installation of OpenVMS, and will be licensed with OpenVMS. The OpenVMS VMSstation workstation has been discussed at the LA DECUS (1998), and has been widely discussed in the comp.os.vms newsgroup. JDK 1.1.6, Netscape FastTrack V3.01, and other Internet tools will be available with (or based on) the upcoming OpenVMS V7.2 release. (The FastTrack beta is available now, for instance.)
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