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New edition of a text for OpenVMS programmers. The author covers the fundamentals of DCL, integrating DCL programs with the World Wide Web using CGI scripting, year 2000 issues, DECnet communications, file protection, and arrays. Appends information on hexadecimal notation, character sets, and sample applications. Intended for OpenVMS programmers and administrators, systems managers, and even non-programmers. Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Book Description
Newly revised and updated, Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition will help OpenVMS programmers make an intelligent choice between DCL and more conventional programming languages. In addition, it offers a programming language to computer users who are not conversant with conventional languages. Among the new material is information on DCL commands, security, DCL procedures, aliases, searchlists, UIC-based protection, objects, pipes, detached processes, network processes, HTML, CGI scripting and environments, and reading and writing logical names. New chapters on using DCL for the web and DCL and compiled code are particularly relevant to today's programming needs.
Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, also covers updated OpenVMS concepts, files and directories, aliases, searchlists, UIC-based protection, and pipes. The only book devoted to programming in DCL, Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, is an essential guide for OpenVMS developers, administrators, and advanced users.
Only book to specifically cover programming in DCL
Updated to include changes to OpenVMS concepts, files and directories, logical names, security, and processes
Contains new chapters on DCL and the Web and DCL and compiled code
Book Info
Enables OpenVMS programmers to create powerful programs with Open VMS's Digital Command Language (DCL). Teaches the fundamentals of DCL & when to use DCL instead of a more conventional programming language. Paper. DLC: VAX/VMS.
From the Publisher
Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, also covers updated OpenVMS concepts, files and directories, aliases, searchlists, UIC-based protection, and pipes. The only book devoted to programming in DCL, Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, is an essential guide for OpenVMS developers, administrators, and advanced users.
About the Author
Steve Hoffman is a Principle Engineer and member of the OpenVMS Engineering Group at Digital Equipment Corporation. Paul Anagnostopoulos is a VAX/VMS Consultant.
Writing Real Programs in DCL ANNOTATION
Audience: OpenVMS programmers and users.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Newly revised and updated, Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition will help OpenVMS programmers make an intelligent choice between DCL and more conventional programming languages. In addition, it offers a programming language to computer users who are not conversant with conventional languages. Among the new material is information on DCL commands, security, DCL procedures, aliases, searchlists, UIC-based protection, objects, pipes, detached processes, network processes, HTML, CGI scripting and environments, and reading and writing logical names. New chapters on using DCL for the web and DCL and compiled code are particularly relevant to today's programming needs.
Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, also covers updated OpenVMS concepts, files and directories, aliases, searchlists, UIC-based protection, and pipes. The only book devoted to programming in DCL, Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, is an essential guide for OpenVMS developers, administrators, and advanced users.
Only book to specifically cover programming in DCL
Updated to include changes to OpenVMS concepts, files and directories, logical names, security, and processes
Contains new chapters on DCL and the Web and DCL and compiled code
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
New edition of a text for OpenVMS programmers. The author covers the fundamentals of DCL, integrating DCL programs with the World Wide Web using CGI scripting, year 2000 issues, DECnet communications, file protection, and arrays. Appends information on hexadecimal notation, character sets, and sample applications. Intended for OpenVMS programmers and administrators, systems managers, and even non-programmers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Jack Woehr
DCL Up To Date
Writing Real Programs in DCL, Second Edition is a revised
edition of VAX/VMS: Writing Real Programs in DCL, written by
Paul Anagnostopoulos in 1989. The book is intended for OpenVMS users
already familiar with the operating system who wish to learn the DCL
(short for "Digital Command Language") well enough to write scripts,
ranging from basic file system commands up to and including scripts
intended to be executed under VMS as part of CGI.
DCL is the interactive command interpreter that users encounter on
a VMS system, and can also execute scripts. DCL's position in the
architecture of VMS is equivalent to that of the Bourne shell in the
UNIX system.
Classic computer books written in classic style to high standards
about classic procedural languages look and feel similar; that is,
they look dignified. This is a dignified book, a revision of a
classic that stood almost a decade and has had time to mature in the
keg.
Writing Real Programs in DCL takes you in an orderly
progression from the elements of DCL to sophisticated scripting for
CGI. The style is well-balanced between the needs of the average user
and the needs of the programming sophisticate. The presentation is
lucid, knowledgeable, and accurate. The transitions between each unit
of knowledge are logical and the domain of discourse is well-defined.
There is a steady induction of general VMS knowledge into the
discussion. The overall range of problems which might reasonably be
solved using DCL is explored thoroughly and in case detail.
Coauthor Steve Hoffman, who did most of the writing for the
revision, has added new material on CGI, the Year 2000, and security,
addressing problems and capabilities that have arisen in the years
since the original publication. One of the finest compliments that
one can pay the authors of a revised text is that the new material
does not obtrude, buts blends smoothly with the original.
Typographically, using little "stickpin" icons to indicate a link
between one unit and another serves to emphasize how the Web has
transformed our underlying expectations of the way educational
material is presented. This book is set in LaTex by the authors, and
like many other similarly constructed texts, will make a splendid
archival web document when all the modalities of property right
protection have been solved in the publishing industry.
Though targeted at open VMS, all of the examples I tried ran also
under VMS 5.2 on a MicroVAX.
If learning DCL quickly and in textbook fashion is what you need,
this book will get you there. Keep Writing Real Programs in
DCL on your shelf and expect few changes in DCL, a mature
technology. Writing Real Programs in DCL is a polished book about a
polished technology, and it's 100 percent free of horsefeathers.--Dr. Dobb's Electronic Review of Computer Books