[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[BillPedersen]

On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 3:01:49 PM UTC-5, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> Well I think I'm just about ready to give up trying to license the 
> openvms73 I have. I've tried numerous techniques to get the PAKs into xterms 
> and moving files int the open vms OS itself. There's nothing but problems. I 
> try manually typing, nothing recognizes a license. It can't all be errors in 
> the license command file. I should be using decuserve right now anyway. but 
> I thought I'd try my hand at system manager for a while.
> 
>     Anyway I guess I'm going to make a last call for anyone that might have 
> any ideas on how to license the openvms. And get the license into the OS. I 
> have X or xterm. No other desktops. No Xfc or any desktops enviornments. 
> Would that make a difference? Just X
> 
> Bill

ok, from the sound of this and others later it suggests you have either loaded some initial licenses or you just booted on a workstation and so you have the minimal DECwindows environment.

The issue with loading the ASCII PAKs is that you need to do this in such a way that you do not break the command lines.

This can be done by either having a window which is more than 80 characters wide (and terminal characteristics know that) or by setting the terminal /NOWRAP.

Then, you need to take the PAK and do a WINDOWS or LINUX "cut and paste" where you open the PAK in an editor of your choice on your NON-VMS environment.  Select the contents and "copy" them to the paste buffer.

Now go to your VMS system.  Start an editor (like by typing "EDIT pak_file.com") to receive the contents of the PAK.  Now, PASTE the contents of the PAK file into the editor screen.  You should then eventually see at the bottom of the file something like "end of PAK file" or similar.

Exit the editor.

invoke the new command file:

    @pak_file.com

It should then work its way through loading the new PAKs for the software.

Now IF you get an error you need to copy it so we can help you by showing the entire error.

An alternative to using an editor is to use CREATE.  To do this type:

    CREATE pak_file.com

Then repeat the paste operation.

After the paste as completed do a Control-Z to exit the CREATE command.

Then execute the command procedure like above.

Good luck.

But please if you have an error get us information about the error.  DETAILED information.

Thanks,

Bill.