A.Eric@GSB-HOW.STANFORD.EDU (Eric M. Berg) (09/21/87)
We (the Graduate School of Business at Stanford) have just installed our first Vax/VMS system, and are looking for ways of teaching our users about using VMS. Stanford has some fairly good locally-written user documentation for TOPS-20, but there aren't many people using VMS on campus, so nothing like that is available here. What we're looking for is something we can give out to users that would get them started with the system, explain a little bit about DCL, the file system, print & batch queues, running programs, and possibly a little about writing user programs (in FORTRAN, e.g.) under VMS. Our new system will initially be used mostly by faculty & Ph.D. students for research purposes (data analysis using stat. packages or FORTRAN programs) and general computing (electronic mail, text editing, perhaps running TeX). Most of them have used our DEC-20 systems in the past. Eventually, other people will be using the Vax, including administrative staff and perhaps MBA students. We'd be very interested in hearing what other sites have done, esp. people in similar situations (running general-purpose University computer centers, maybe even for anothe business school). Even better, if you're in a position to send us a copy of something you've written, we'd love to see it. (I can't think of anything special we can offer to do in return, except to send you back a copy of what we eventually come up with.) Many thanks to anyone who is able to reply. Eric M. Berg Computer Facility Graduate School of Business Stanford University Stanford, CA. 94305-5015 -------
rshuford@well.UUCP (09/22/87)
The Fall 1985 DECUS VAX SIG collection tape contained some locally written
documentation from the University of Wisconsin--River Falls for their VMS-
based computer center.
There was a rather large volume of material there, if I recall correctly.
My hazy memory is that it was about 350K bytes. Some fraction of that had
to do with communication quirks in their system induced by some data PBX.
If you have access to this tape through your DECUS LUG, look for the [.UWRF]
directory.
.....Richard S. Shuford hplabs!well!rshuford
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