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From: Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com>
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Subject: Re: VMS Pascal article
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 19:09:31 -0500
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On 1/7/2025 7:00 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/7/2025 6:02 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <4fce5c9d3be918e8a00edccd228701713d4fd059@i2pn2.org>,
>> John Reagan  <johnrreagan@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> On 1/7/2025 4:04 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>>> In article <73aedef89896db7fe5bc43b8d47a8560537c6a48@i2pn2.org>,
>>>> John Reagan  <johnrreagan@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>> I have a copy of Theo De Klerk's book on my bookshelf.  I did the
>>>>> technical review of that book (wow, that is a long time ago!)
>>>>
>>>> It looks like it would be a very nice reference; it's a that it
>>>> is no longer available.  I wonder if the author retained rights,
>>>> or if those lie with Digital Press?  If the former, perhaps the
>>>> electronic copy others mentioned might show up in the Internet
>>>> Archive's library or something similar.
>>>
>>> Good question.  My last email exchange with Theo was several years ago.
>>> I suspect that Digital Press (or who ever bought all of their IP) would
>>> still own the copyright to that version but could he provide an "almost
>>> final draft" for some archive in much the same way the C/C++ standard
>>> committees provide "drafts" of the standards to avoid copyright issues.
>>
>> That would be very cool!  There aren't that many books about
>> OpenVMS out there, it seems; even fewer about application
>> development.  It would be great to have a few titles available.
>
> Once upon a time there were a reasonable number of of VMS books
> available - including about development.
>
> I have a list:
>    https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/books.html
>
> But most of them are both not available for sale any longer
> and not uptodate (either describe VMS VAX or VMS Alpha).
>
> Probably not enough market today. How many would buy a book
> about VMS Pascal development today? 25? 50? 100?
>
> Arne
>

If a book has an electronic format, does it matter how many would purchase it?

Speaking of books, I have one that I may never have use for again:

VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures
Ruth E. Goldenberg
Lawrence J. Kenah
Version 5.2

Also had an earlier version, but haven't seen it for some time ...


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