Strangely enough there is almost no information on the Internet on how to run lynx.exe on OpenVMS. Maybe my Google-Fu is bad (it is) and maybe most will ask “Why the hell do you want to run Lynx on OpenVMS anyways ??”
UPDATE – https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/setting-up-dw-motif-on-openvms-8-4-2-alphavm-linux64/
Since it is already past September 2017 (Trial TCP/IP License ends from VMS Software) I had to do some time traveling in order to get the lynx up and running
So after the time jump (went back 1 month) for TCP/IP stack to work . Please check the info here https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/installing-openvms-v8-4-2-on-alphavm-pt-1/
So back to OpenVMS and Lynx browsing …
I have uploaded the install.com, lynx.cfg, lynx.exe in a gzipped tarball here https://drop.me/adeL3M
Gunzip and untar the above 3 files and upload via FTP/SCP/SFTP to the OpenVMS system. I have put the files into my users home directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[USER.LYNX]
Once inside LYNX.DIR
You need these 3 files extracted from https://drop.me/adeL3M
Once uploaded CD to the directory and run lynx.exe
$ set default SYS$SYSDEVICE:[USER.LYNX] $ @install.com $ run lynx
g (enter) http://www.netbsd.org
Finally what OpenVMS are we running ?
Unfortunately the lynx.exe is not compiled with OpenSSL/TLS support … so we are stuck with only http pages :)
