[Info-vax] Looking for VAX SCAN (programming language) documentation

[lorin@parsec.com]

Does anyone have the doc-set for the VAX SCAN programming language?  AFAICR, there was only one volume/manual ("Programmers Guide"), and it was a 3-ring binder, one of those old 2/3rd sized volumes, orange.

If you've got one, I'd just borrow it, scan it to a PDF-document (for sharing, of course), and return it.  I've googled for it as a PDF, no joy.

If your computing days go back to the mid-1980s, you'll recall that SCAN was a fantastic little text-processing, pattern-matching programming language, but it didn't "make the cut" for port to Alpha (etc.), hence the "VAX" in "VAX SCAN". Its compiler was a full-fledged member of the VMS Common Language environment; SCAN object code was linkable with modules from other languages (C, Pascal, etc), very nice and useful.  The language was featured in an article in TDTJ, vol 1 issue 6, pg 40: "VAX SCAN: Rule-Based Text Processing Software" (complete archive at http://www.dtjcd.vmsresource.org.uk/).

My interest/purpose here is didactic, instructional and comparative, e.g., to "modern" text-processing languages and capabilities.

Many thanks for any assistance on this!
-- Lorin