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

[lorinricker at gmail.com]

On Friday, January 12, 2018 at 1:53:15 PM UTC-7, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-01-12 18:53:33 +0000, lorin at parsec.com said:
> 
> > Was unsuccessful finding a PS version of the manual among the Freeware 
> > files -- didn't have time (yet) to search the zip-files thoroughly.
> 
> Search for zip archive files with the substring "doc".   The files in 
> those zip archives are RNO files; RUNOFF files.  If the docs won't 
> build with the built-in RUNOFF tool within OpenVMS and the provided DCL 
> command procedures within the respective zip archives, then DSR+ is 
> available on the Freeware and that'll probably build the documentation 
> files for you.
> 
> https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v60/dsrplus/
> 
> The conversion from Postscript to PDF is easy when you have macOS 
> around; it's all part of the platform either directly via the GUI tools 
> or via the command-line and the ps2pdf tool that's part of Ghostscript. 
>  Ghostscript is available for other platforms, including OpenVMS.   I'm 
> sure that the Adobe Acrobat tools can perform the same conversions on 
> Microsoft Windows, if that's the local client platform.   And there are 
> Ghostscript ports for Windows.   
> https://ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html
> 
> The SDL tool (apparently used elsewhere in the SCAN bits) is also 
> available on the Freeware.  
> https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/sdl/
> -- 
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

Thanks again, Steve -- I think that the LSE_DOC.ZIP contains the manual, what I'm lookin' for.  Appreciate y'all so much... -- Lorin