[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 22:50:00 UTC, Bill Cunningham  wrote:
> <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.

The two examples I linke to are huge because they're
comprehensive and they work. Like VMS in general.

The piece of those two that's most relevant to your problem  
(sucessfully entering PAKs) is a tiny part of it.

The piece that people here need from you - what *exactly* it is
that you're doing, and what *exactly* happens when you try it,
isn't here yet.

Best of luck.