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The Question is: Dear Wizard: Coming from a Unix enviornment, I am used to a great deal of information on Unix systems development from books and online tutorials. When I switched to OpenVMS, I find myself able to do platform independent things fine, but I am unable to become proficient with the OpenVMS tied things. If this was Unix, I would just go out and buy an O'Reilly book, but it is not. What's a few good books I could read to get started with VMS programming in C, Pascal, BASIC? I don't want to have to wait for "OpenVMS for dummies". Thanks a bunch j The Answer is : Any special relationship between a language and OpenVMS itself is covered in the documentation for that language -- because of the OpenVMS calling standard, various languages all interoperate with each other and with OpenVMS using the same basic constructs and concepts. Mixed-language programming is quite common on OpenVMS. Language-independent programming concepts are covered in the OpenVMS Documentation in great detail; please see the OpenVMS Programming Concepts manual as a starting point. From that point, manuals covering the calling standard and modular programming will be of some interest, and the manuals on topic areas (RMS, device drivers, the reference material covering the many run-time libraries and OpenVMS system services) will be of interest, as will be some of the various topics present in the OpenVMS FAQ. The commercial market for OpenVMS books tends to center around rather more esoteric or task-specific subjects, such as the "Internals and Data Structures" and "VMS File System Internals" books -- relevent bibliographic information is included in the OpenVMS FAQ. Also of interest are available training OpenVMS courses and technical resource kits (TRKs). The OpenVMS FAQ contains pointers to information on available training courses and materials, as well as pointers to various OpenVMS-related tutorials.
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