[Info-vax] DEC3000->DECServer90TL->CMM comunication problem

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-04-23 11:13:26 +0000, emilwp at gmail.com said:

> As said, I'm newbe with the VMS - my knowledge does not go too far 
> from: dir, type, set def , show.

As I tell all the folks that are making that claim, um, so what?

We were all newbies to VMS once.

Want to be less of a newbie?

Please read the available OpenVMS manuals.  Most of the OpenVMS-related 
product documentation is here <http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc>, and 
you'll want to click on the link to the OpenVMS operating system 
documentation for that documentation.

To make effective use of OpenVMS, you really need to read through the 
OpenVMS User's Manual, and then — depending on what you're planning to 
do — read either or both of the OpenVMS Programming Concepts manuals 
and the OpenVMS System Managers' manuals.   These documents are the 
foundation of the rest of the documentation, and more importantly of 
knowing how to use, program, and manage OpenVMS systems.

With that knowledge, you will have a far better idea of the terms and 
concepts and commands, and the programming constructs and APIs and 
related.

OpenVMS is from an era when there were detailed manuals, and from an 
era when there really needed to be these sorts of documents provided.  
Yes, it's a pain to skim all that text, but that text is free to read, 
and the PDFs can be downloaded into your preferred ebook reader, etc.

Some familiarity with the documentation will help you get answers to 
your questions more quickly, too.

If you're in a particular hurry to get this stuff working and back 
online, then you're likely going to need to connect with somebody 
that's already read through the manuals  and that has had some 
experience with troubleshooting complex configurations.




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