[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[IanD]

On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 9:11:46 AM UTC+11, VAXman- wrote:

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> 
> 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.
> 

^ This

What I ended up doing was doing a cut and paste into a file on the VMS system that allowed the network and VMS license to register

Then work at getting the network going and ftp bla bla bla

>From there, I transferred over the whole license PAK (hobbyist) and ran it in it's entirety

Of course, getting the network running was fun and games inside a Vmware environment, had to play with enabling promiscuous mode settings and other such shenanigans

Compared with a linux distribution, getting VMS licenses / software is painful (sign up with a recognised group, apply for the licenses, find an emulator or scrap up some hardware, then try and get it all working)