[Info-vax] openvms licensing

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In article <na2prb$h3f$1 at dont-email.me>, "Bill Cunningham" <nospam at nspam.invalid> writes:
>
>"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.

What kind of PAKs.  V7.3?  Can we assume these are Hobbyist PAKs?  If so,
these are sent as a file containing the commands needed to be executed to
load the PAKs.  You just need to move the file you received to the system
and execute it as "$ @the-license-file-name.its-extension

Of course, getting that file to the VMS system can be problematic.  It's
one of the more ill-conceived things about this sort of PAK distribution
mechanism in that without valid PAKs, it can be rather daunting to place
the PAK procedure on the system for which the PAKs are intended.


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