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Overview
This book is the first book in “The Minimum You Need to Know” family
of books by Logikal Solutions. As the family expands they will cover
an increasing variety of topics. To start the family off right, it
will begin by covering the most robust and stable clustered
operating system in the world.
There are two main intents of this book. The first intent is to
allow developers who know at least one of the covered languages on
another platform to quickly come up to speed on the OpenVMS
platform. The second is to assist current OpenVMS developers finding
themselves having to work with a different language their current
language become productive.
A single application is developed over and over again in each of the
languages. Both RMS Indexed file development and relational
development are covered in the book. When working with MySQL only
the C language is covered. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the
source code developed in the book. By being able to compare the
source code for the same application in different languages the
reader can quickly get a feeling for the design trade offs and
benefits of each language covered.
The screen handler covered is FMS. While this may be one of the
oldest, if not the oldest, screen handling/forms development
packages on OpenVMS, it does have a very large base in production
systems. If you are new to the OpenVMS environment you will
encounter it. Once you know this forms management system you should
be able to quickly pick up the other screen handling/forms products
on this platform.
