gerry77@no.spam.mail.com wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm looking for older Fortran manuals, something like VAX Fortran released
> when VMS 7.x or 6.x was new. I've made lengthy searches on HP website, but
> wasn't able to find anything older than the latest HP Fortran for Itanium and
> Alpha processors, neither on "official" pages nor fiddling with URLs :-)
>
> Any pointer to such manuals in PDF would be much appreciated. I do know that
> almost everything can be found on newer manuals, but I do want the older ones.
> I'm specifically looking for VAX related manuals, not Itanium or Alpha, for
> hobbyist training purposes on older systems (even VAX/VMS 5.x if possible).
>
> Thank you,
> G.
>

Was there something specific you wanted to know? I have copies of both
"DEC Fortran User Manual for OpenVMS VAX Systems" AA-PUYPA-TE (1993) and
"DEC Fortran Language Reference Manual" AA-PU45B-TK (1995). I will not
part with them but I could look something up for you. . . .

You might try Googling for those order numbers. . . . They might be
online somewhere where HP's pitifully lame search engine can't find them.

G.,

you can find old documentation at:

http://www.sysworks.com.au/odl.html

Happy New Year and happy reading...

Volker.

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:00:06 -0500, "Richard B. Gilbert"
wrote:

> Was there something specific you wanted to know? I have copies of both

No, thanks, nothing specific. I was just looking for the right manual, with
all those little details about the VAX Fortran implementation that in current
manuals are either hidden among paragraphs which outline differences between
Itanium and Alpha, or sometimes maybe completely removed.

Moreover I was looking for something published when Fortran 77 was current (or
at least more usual than now) :-)

G.

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), Volker Halle
wrote:

> you can find old documentation at:
>
> http://www.sysworks.com.au/odl.html

I knew them because they appear quite often searching with Google, but I
didn't think to look at their site for specific information because I was
looking for PDF manuals, anyway they have something very useful about Fortran
so I'll stick with them until I'll find something in PDF.

Thank you for this suggestion,
G.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gerry77@no.spam.mail.com [mailto:gerry77@no.spam.mail.com]
> Sent: January 3, 2008 1:53 AM
> To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
> Subject: Re: Looking for older Fortran manuals
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:10:15 -0800 (PST), Volker Halle
> wrote:
>
> > you can find old documentation at:
> >
> > http://www.sysworks.com.au/odl.html
>
> I knew them because they appear quite often searching with Google, but
> I
> didn't think to look at their site for specific information because I
> was
> looking for PDF manuals, anyway they have something very useful about
> Fortran
> so I'll stick with them until I'll find something in PDF.
>
> Thank you for this suggestion,
> G.

Not specific to Fortran, but archived OpenVMS doc's that include VAX to
Alpha type doc's are at:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/archived.html

Btw, the concepts and strategies in "Building Dependable Systems - The
OpenVMS Approach" is still as valid today as it was many years ago.



Regards

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
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