UNIX for OpenVMS Users, Third Edition (UNIX for OpenVMS Users)

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Summary: An essential tool for the VMS user/programmer moving to Unix
Review: A VMS power user will feel like a stranger in a strange land when first exploring the world of Unix. This book can be an indispensable guide for the VMS user forced to make this odyssey. More than just a foreign language phrase book, offering literal translations of VMS commands into Unix, it discusses and contrasts the basic philosophies behind each operating system. Understanding these fundamental differences will allow the newly transplated-to-Unix VMS user to exploit the strengths of this popular operating system rather than just feeling cheated out of the many powerful features of VMS that have no direct analog in Unix. For the power user, applications programmer, and system admin, all of the important topics are covered clearly and in sufficient detail.

The third edition adds valuable new information on VMS logical names, the Emacs text editor, and the Perl scripting language. It also has been given a new and much improved layout that makes it considerably easier to read then the previous editions. All in all, highly recommended!