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"Georges A. Tomazi" wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
> I'm looking for a good introductory book on OpenVMS, from newbie level
> to intermediate/advanced covering usage and administration, for
> someone with some strong Unix background.

> Any recommendation ?

Amazingly, I believe the user documentation is pretty good. You're
asking a tall order to go from basic user to administration, because
administration functions are quite presumptuous over your level of basic
knowledge.

You can pull down to view offline, the PDF version of most of the
manuals, follow the documentation links from
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/

General user, and the DCL dictionary are the ones to start with.

System management is more tricky, because there are several manuals, and
additional ones which may or may not apply if you are using clusters.
Similarly there are guides for Galaxy systems, etc.

Have you checked out the linux howto site, there is a VMS to linux
howto, which should help,
http://mirrors.linuxmall.com/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
VMS-to-linux-HOWTO

Until you're familiar with the VMS concepts (opposed to the way unix
behaves) you will most likely find making sense of the way VMS behaves
quite hard work.

-- 
Regards, Nic Clews a.k.a. Mr. CP Charges, CSC Computer Sciences
nclews at csc dot com