[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[Bill Cunningham]

"Hans Vlems" <hvlems at freenet.de> wrote in message 
news:c4334f59-a1dc-478f-9dab-ba5a147453e1 at googlegroups.com...
> Bill, it is not clear to me how or where you got your licence(s). Perhaps 
> it was in another post.
> Since you are new to VMS you wouldn't have any paper licenses that fail to 
> load. Next, you're not doing this for a job so I assume that you got 
> hobbyist licenses from HP's John Egolf.
> He sends out a mail with two kinds of text attachments. One text file 
> contains the operating system license, the other has around 100 product 
> licenses.
> Copy the attachments from the mail to a directory of your pc. You end up 
> with two text files.
> Coy these two files to the computer that is host to your simhVAX.
> Start VMS on simh and log in (as SYSTEM).
>
> You've done that before you said. Open the shortest one in notepad (i 
> assume Windows here). Select all text (control-A) and copy the selection 
> (control-C).
>
> On the VMS system enter the command:
>
> $ create myvms.com
>
> Nothing will happen, the vms system waits for you to enter text.
> Now if you are using PUTTY as terminal emulator, click the right mouse 
> button: that serves as the paste command for putty. On any other terminal 
> emulator study what particular key sequence is used for pasting text.
>
> The text from the file is printed on the terminal emulator. When it stops 
> enter control-Z on the VMS system.
> Next type:
> $ @myvms
>
> After that reboot the VMS system. The VMS license ought to show up on the 
> command
> $ show license
>
> If it works then repeat the procedure with the other file.

Is there a way I can do this with linux? I do have two emails. One with the 
PAKs data. And one that says use create file

And then copy the PAKs and use CRTL-Z. Hum. I will see if I can get hold of 
Putty. I've heard of it. But X and xerm, maybe I just don't know enough 
about it.

Bill