[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[wendellxe at yahoo.com]

I've been looking for a tutorial book on VMS programming, something akin to Rochkind's _Advanced Unix Programming_. I haven't found anything online, but I've seen mention of these two books. Could anyone comment on their contents and/or recommend something else?

    Writing VAX/VMS Applications Using Pascal (Theo de Klerk, 1991)

    Software Implementation Techniques: Writing Software in OpenVMS, OS/2, UNIX and Windows NT (Donald Merusi, 1995)

Coming from Unix, I'm used to designing around the interaction of small, modular tools and using flat text files as a common interchange format. I need a thorough explanation of how to best design around VMS's heavier process model and relative complexity of the RMS.

I have looked through much of the docs available from HP, but they are not suitable tutorial material.