Re: VMS Pascal article

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.
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I have a list:
   https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/books.html
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But most of them are both not available for sale any longer
and not uptodate (either describe VMS VAX or VMS Alpha).
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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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