[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[BillPedersen]

On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 8:08:31 PM UTC-5, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> "Jan-Erik Soderholm" <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote in message 
> news:na303t$eb3$2 at news.albasani.net...
> > Den 2016-02-17 kl. 23:45, skrev Bill Cunningham:
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >
> > [snip snip]
> >
> >>
> >> It is a hobbyist PAK. 112 PAKs. The other email said to run it as above.
> >> I can get the file onto VMS...
> >
> > And exactly HOW did you do that ???
> >
> > What do you see when TYPE'ing your file?
> >
> > Does it look OK with clean consecutive lines
> > each starting with an $?
> >
> 
> Looks like it.
> 
>     Ok Now some exaplaining. I use the card reader to load the text file 
> into simh and then into VMS. Take note, Now this is off the top of my head. 
> I am at a laptop now without VMS access.
> 
> set cr enable
> at -a cr list // PAK file.
> set cr translation=029
> b cpu
> 
> Ok and then in VMS I set the card reader. This is really a worthwhile 
> endeavor.
> 
> alloc cra0:
> set card_reader cra0:/029
> copy cra0: license.com
> 
> The cra0: finishes and I have to interrupt. But the file is there. I type 
> @license.com and get a lines full of errors. I've logged it but I don't have 
> access right now. I've tried so many things I'm waiting for someone to 
> pinpoint something so I can explain in detail. You hit the nail on the head.
> 
>     I typed the file and some lines that began with
> 
> $ or
> $!
> 
> Were changed to
> [
> a left bracket. It is very possible that there have been attributes altered. 
> I already have a .com file and creating a new one and copying would not 
> help.
> 
> Bill

I have used SimH without needing to resort to this.  Just opened the editor or CREATE in the SimH window and then did as I previously suggested.

Just use the cut/paste operation.

Bill.