[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[Bill Cunningham]

"IanD" <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:6cc39f0b-0429-4549-99eb-d2c25ad22159 at googlegroups.com...
> On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 9:11:46 AM UTC+11, VAXman- wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> 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)

    Yeah but I am going to learn some things. I have a "last resort" that I 
am pretty sure will work. But I am trying to learn various things. And very 
much a novice at VMS. But it look like a worthwhile thing to learn. I may 
take a break here if I don't get somewhere soon. :)

Bill