[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[Bill Cunningham]

<johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:34c15fdc-5212-4e5d-8a51-2e4d6ce3f704 at googlegroups.com...

> Lots of people have made this work. Some of them have taken
> the trouble to document what worked for them, including SIMH
> on Linux.
>
> Have you looked at references such as Philip Wherry's page
> http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html (2004, but
> still largely valid)

`Yes largely. But not all of the page no. It's huge. ;) It covers how to get 
TCP/IP going.

> or
> https://vanalboom.org/node/18 (2012)
> (others probably available too)
> Both the above include examples of registering PAKs. Neither of
> these two include exact instructions on how to get *your* PAKs
> into *your* VAX from *your* Linux (e.g. by using copy+paste) -
> that's *your* challenge to solve.
>
> Since copy+paste seems to be part of your problem, try using
> VMSLICENCE.COM to type in *just* the base VMS PAK you received, by
> hand, without copy+paste, following the process shown in the two
> examples above.
>
> If that doesn't work, you could try it again and record *exactly*
> what you did, and *exactly* what the results were, and post here.
>
> The VMS end of this stuff is tried tested and proven and documented.
> What isn't working here is something that is specific to your setup,
> and so far you're offering people almost no useful information on that.
>
> Once that works, then do the same with *just* the networking
> licence. Then you could stop typing by hand, configure the VMS
> network (as per the two examples above) and then you could get
> the rest of the PAKs into the VAX by your preferred method, and
> register them if you wish (you don't actually need most of them).
>
> This stuff works, at least at the VMS end, and many others have
> made it work under various Linuxes (including Raspbian...).
>
> Or you could take dan up on his generous offer.
>
> But first, maybe do some reading from people who have made this
> work already.