[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[Bill Cunningham]

"BillPedersen" <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> wrote in message 
news:8b64bd77-a8e8-4785-b236-a588e3b4bf7b at googlegroups.com...

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.

Thanks much. There's 3 things I'm trying to do here. So if you think I'm 
wasting your time that's fine. It sounds like your using some kind of 
desktop. I'm trying not to resort to that. But I can. I am in console mode. 
I install Xterms and I'm not getting anywhere there so I will install more. 
In console mode, just loading a few PAKs sounds like the way to go. I'm a 
purist :) I guess you can say.

    I'm also trying to get the files into the OS through simh without 
damaging them. As you say that's difficult. I have several DV* PAKs and UCX 
PAKs too. I might have to load them all. There is a VAX-VMS PAK. I am 
assuming as others have sounded like they've said, that's the main PAK for 
functionality. Minimal functionality.

    Learning that vmslicense.com syntax can be hairy. So I know where to put 
activity now and for me it's always

    constant=100.

>From Xterms I can't envelope all the text in dark image to cut it and paste 
to the next xterm window. That's not going anywhere. I will log all further 
attempts.

Bill