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
available for OpenVMS/alpha and it is beta software. The distribution
is simply a zipped up directory tree and there is no installation as
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.

You can download the full PDF or HTML documentation from
ftp://ftp.easysoft.com/docs/oob/

OS/TCPIP requirements
---------------------

This version of OOB has been tested on OpenVMS 7.2 and UCX 5.0 (and
5.0A). It may or may not work on previous versions of OpenVMS and UCX
but for earlier versions of the OS you may need the C runtime library
from us (let us know if this is the case). Easysoft are working on
greater support for OS versions and TCPIP stacks but there is no
quotable time frame for this. We are also looking at DECNET but the
same applies.

Please see the examples section below to see how you can test if this
beta release is compatible with your machine configuration.

Examples
--------

The examples subdirectory contains a few C and Perl examples of using
the OOB. If your VMS machine is connected to the Internet you can
build and run the demo.c program which connects to our demo OOB Server
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.

If you are not connected to the Internet you need to download and
install the OOB Server for another operating system (e.g. Windows)
and create a data source for the ODBC driver you want access to.