Welcome to the Masters Education Program (MEP) by PARSEC Group! We are excited to introduce our first publicly available training series, "OpenVMS for UNIX Users".

This four-part seminar is designed to introduce users of the various UNIX platforms to the OpenVMS operating system. In it, we'll take your well-known Unix /Linux /Tru64 /etc. commands and learn what the equivalent command would be within OpenVMS. Naturally, this means that a system manager familiar with OpenVMS may be able to reverse engineer the Unix style commands as well.

Part 2 of "OpenVMS for UNIX Users"

This section is an introduction to the basic commands to perform basic tasks on the operating system.

File System - Understanding how the file system is laid out is important. The basic concepts are the same in any operating system, but the syntax to manipulate your way through a file system is extremely different on OpenVMS than UNIX platforms. This is likely the hardest aspect to learn. Topics will include:

• Navigation on the File System
• Displaying your Current Directory
• Changing Directories
• Displaying Files in the Current Directory
• Creating and Removing Directories
• Listing Files in a Directory
• Find Files by Name
• Mounting / Dismounting Volumes

File Operation Commands - There are a number of everyday functions that occur on a system that all users need to be aware of, in order to perform basic file manipulations. These include copying files, moving files, printing files, deleting files, and compressing files for easy transfers. Topics include:

• Copying Files
• Moving Files
• Printing Files
• Compressing Files for Easy Transfers
• Viewing Files
• Finding Files Based on Content
• Comparing Files

Stay Tuned for the Full Series!

This is just Part 2 of the series! In the next sessions we'll cover:

• Disk, File, and Folder Size / Usage Commands and File Editing
• Administration Commands, Informational Commands, and PIPE

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