[Info-vax] hobbyist licenses

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2013-10-20 18:51:
> In article <l40v6b$302$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>
>> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2013-10-20 15:42:
>>> I realize later than I should have the expiry date of my hobbyist
>>> licenses and have requested new ones from the same source.  Has
>>> anything changed in the last year or so?
>>
>> In what regard? Did you not get any reply?
>> And if so, how long time has passed since the
>> request was registred?
>
> No, all is fine, and I have new licenses working now.  The reply was
> very quick.
>
> This year, I didn't order new licenses in time, noticing this only when
> they had expired.  As I said, I got a quick response and everything is
> fine now.  I just wanted to make sure that nothing had changed, i.e.
> that I had requested at the right place.
>
> (Due to some code in the license-PAK procedure, as it is the licenses
> can be loaded and registered only after they have expired.

Hm, is that realy what that test in the suplied COM file does?

I checked my last file (got it early this year) and it checkes
that there are no licence loaded that has a later exp.date
than the license currently beeing loaded. Not? Say, like if
you by mistake runs an older license COM file, you do not
want your current licenses to be replaced by older ones.

In my case, the new licenes expires 1-FEB-2014 and the COM
file lookes for a licens with an expiration date *later*
then 1-FEB-2014. If it finds one, it will skip the
unload/load part.

I might have been missreading the DCL in the COM file...

Jan-Erik.





>  The
> Montagar-distributed licenses didn't have this feature.  I wonder what
> the reason for the change was.)
>