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Article #15883Re: OpenVMS books : seeking advice
From: Larry Kilgallen
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:55
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:55
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In article <3DD4CD56.D2DDDFF0@127.0.0.1>, Nic Clews <sendspamhere@127.0.0.1> writes: > "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. While I agree, my degree of amazement is much less because I have come to expect that from the VMS documentation. I still email my complaints just as often, but my typical documentation these days is about a particular reference being missing from the Index. (Complete indices are _extremely_ hard to achieve.)
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