DEC DATATRIEVE provides a series of sample definitions for you to practice with as you are learning DEC DATATRIEVE. Many of these sample definitions are used in the examples in the DEC DATATRIEVE documentation set. DEC DATATRIEVE provides the NEWUSER.COM program which lets you store these definitions and their accompanying data files in a specific area of your system. NEWUSER stores the definitions in a Oracle CDD/Repository directory that it creates for you. It stores the data files (file type .DAT) in the OpenVMS directory to which you have set default. The location of these files is important in the efficient use of DEC DATATRIEVE. Unless your domain definition specifically identifies the OpenVMS directory in which the data file is stored, DEC DATATRIEVE looks in your default OpenVMS directory for the data files it needs to perform various operations. To use the sample definitions correctly, you should always set your OpenVMS default directory to the directory in which you have stored your sample data files; otherwise, when you ready one of the sample domains, you may get an error message, such as the one in the following example: DTR> READY YACHTS File not found - "YACHTS.DAT". DTR> If you get such an error, you should exit DEC DATATRIEVE and set your default OpenVMS directory to the directory that contains the sample data files and then reinvoke DEC DATATRIEVE. A number of the sample definitions are also stored in CDD$TOP.DTR$LIB.DEMO upon installation of DEC DATATRIEVE. These definitions are for read-only purposes. You should not attempt to edit these definitions. Use the sample definitions and sample data files provided by NEWUSER.COM for your practice exercises. If you also use Oracle CODASYL DBMS and Oracle Rdb, DEC DATATRIEVE provides some DEC DATATRIEVE-specific sample definitions for these products. These are stored in dictionary directories subordinate to CDD$TOP.DTR$LIB.DEMO: CDD$TOP.DTR$LIB.DEMO.RDB and CDD$TOP.DTR$LIB.DEMO.DBMS.