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From: davidli@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Dave Meile)
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Date: 4 Aug 88 17:21:31 GMT
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In article <8808031622.AA00241@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> TWWALLIS@TWSUVM.BITNET writes:
>I am looking for a good, introductory level book on VAX/VMS. It will be
>a resource that will supplement my user's manual. Does anyone out there
>have any ideas about a book like this? It should be commercially available.
>It would be nice if it has a chapter on editing files with EDIT/TPU.
>Thanks in advance.

If you're getting the VMS 5.0 release, you already have an "introductory level"
book which seems to me to fit what you want.  It's the VMS GENERAL USER'S
MANUAL, part of the Base Documentation Set.  (DEC # AA-LA98A-TE)

You might be able to order them separately, though I'd expect the cost to
be fairly high from DEC.  It has an adequate chapter on editing files using
the EVE and EDT editors, as well as a comprehensive DCL dictionary, etc.

If most of the users of the Simulation Resource where I work were not already
technically oriented (they program Monte Carlo simulation in FORTRAN...), I
would get a lot of copies of this book to hand out when a new person came
to the VAX and VMS.

-- Dave Meile, systems manager
Simulation Resource for Stochastic Micropopulation Models