[Info-vax] OpenVMS doc online (was:Re: "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS)

[bradhamilton]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
[...]
> Funny, I have the same resources as everyone else and I haven't
> had any problem finding answers.  Sure, they don't come with
> real books.  That's nothing new.  AT&T stopped delivering books
> with Unix at SYS V.  You bought your documentation from Prentice-
> Hall.  Same is tru of Windows.  Therea re a lot of sources for
> books if you really want them.  I guess it's a matter of keeping
> the cost down.  VMS used to ship with real books but no longer does.
> Now it comes with one set of documentation CD's which are seldom,
> if ever, available outside the datacenter.
Not true - the documentation (for the last several versions) are 
available online at HP's website:

<http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc>
>   And the one real big
> difference is there are no third party books on VMS available at
> places like Barnes & Noble.
>   
True enough - VMS has been out of the mainstream for so long that "VMS 
for Dummies" would not be a hot seller.
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