> The file contains information specific to OpenVMS users of the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge.   A note about this version  -------------------------   = At this time (20-Apr-2000) only the client side of the OOB is E available for OpenVMS/alpha and it is beta software. The distribution D is simply a zipped up directory tree and there is no installation asC such. You should also note that much of the documentation is biased  towards UNIX or Windows.  ? All these issues will be rectified before the official release.   8 You can download the full PDF or HTML documentation from  ftp://ftp.easysoft.com/docs/oob/   OS/TCPIP requirements  ---------------------   C This version of OOB has been tested on OpenVMS 7.2 and UCX 5.0 (and E 5.0A). It may or may not work on previous versions of OpenVMS (it has E been reported to work on 7.1) and UCX but for earlier versions of the E OS you may need the C runtime library from us (let us know if this is F the case). Easysoft are working on greater support for OS versions andF TCPIP stacks but there is no quotable time frame for this. We are also' looking at DECNET but the same applies.   E Please see the examples section below to see how you can test if this ; beta release is compatible with your machine configuration.   D We have recently (May 2001) had reports of successful operation with9 OpenVMS 7.1 and Process Software's Multinet V4.2 Rev A-X.    Examples --------  E The examples subdirectory contains a few C and Perl examples of using A the OOB. If your VMS machine is connected to the Internet you can F build and run the demo.c program which connects to our demo OOB ServerE and retrieves data from it. For this beta release we would appreciate  feedback on running:   [1] demo.exe (prebuilt by us) ? [2] building demo.exe by running build.com and then running the      demo.exe program.   A If you are not connected to the Internet you need to download and B install the OOB Server for another operating system (e.g. Windows)@ and create a data source for the ODBC driver you want access to.