Newly revised and updated, this second edition will help OpenVMS programmers make an intelligent choice between DCL and more conventional programming languages. In addition, it offers a programming language to computers users who are not conversant with conventional languages.

Digital Visual Fortran is the latest version of a major programming language tool used by scientists and engineers. Written by key technical writers from the Digital Visual Fortran product team, Digital Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide presents in printed form the critical portions of the official programmer's guide, previously only available online. The result is the authoritative book on Digital Visual Fortran's features and how to use them to create effective applications. Digital Visual Fortran is the language of choice for computation-intensive scientific and engineering applications, financial applications, and other programs. Digital recently acquired Fortran technology and rights from Microsoft that allows them to use the Microsoft Developer Studio Integrated Development Environment, which is featured in Microsoft's Visual C++ and Visual Basic. The result is that Digital Visual Fortran is much easier to use and looks and works much like Microsoft's industry-leading programming products for other market segments. The official programmer's guide to Digital Visual Fortran for Version 6.0A Authors are experts from the Digital Visual Fortran product group New Digital Fortran version include Microsoft interface and object technologies

Completely updated and revised, The OpenVMS User's Guide continues to be the prime resource for new and non-technical users on how to use OpenVMS and customize it to their working environment. For more proficient users, the book serves as a quick look-up reference. The book begins with an introduction to the OpenVMS operating system and its built-in functions, and then provides a thorough explanation of OpenVMS files and directories, use of DCL, and how to edit files using EVE and EDT. It also discusses how to create command procedures and the Mail and Phone utilities. New to this edition are additional insights into application development and sending e-mail to remote notes via the Internet, remote logins and file transfers. Each chapter is liberally sprinkled with learning aids including summaries and tables of commands, exercises, and review quizzes. Completely covers the OpenVMS operating system - from logging in to creating command procedures, with thorough discussions of files and directories Covers both EVE and EDT editors in detail Shows how to customize your working environment

1. Introduction -- 2. Booting and startup script -- 3. Licenses -- 4. User accounts, login, and accounting -- 5. Queues -- 6. Backup -- 7. System monitoring and performance management -- 8. Security -- 9. Network -- 10. Clusters -- Bibliography -- Appendixes: -- A. The user environment -- B. VMS and the Web -- C. Assessing OpenVMS and Linux: The right tool for the right job -- D. Memory management system services -- E. Symbols, data, and expressions.

Offering expert guidance on how to maintain, upgrade, and backup a VMS system, this text examines all systems management activities relating to VMS, especially the technical aspects. It covers account setup, file protection, logical names, queues, backup, shutdown, startup, upgrades, tuning capacity planning, and DCL.