[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 04:37:39PM +0100, hb via Info-vax wrote:
 
> For (simh) hobbyists it seems to be more convenient (should I say
> simpler?) if there would be an option to have the file with paks, the
> command procedure, shipped in a container file aka Logical Disk File.

Much easier.  It's also easy enough to create a "container" file with them
in it.  A CDROM ISO image file can work wonders.  The last time I received
new license files I stuck them in a directory, created an ISO image of the
files in that directory, added an entry like:

    attach -r rq3 /home/dokpm0/OpenVMS/Licenses.iso

to my SIMH VAX config file.  RQ3 was previously set as a CDROM drive with:

    set rq3 cdrom

Then after booting OpenVMS in SIMH I mounted the CDROM, copied the license
files to my hard drive, then used:

    set file/attr=rfm:stmlf Hobbyist-USE-ONLY-VA.com

    set file/attr=rfm:stmlf TCPWare.com

to compensate for them being files copied from a Linux system.  Then:

    @Hobbyist-USE-ONLY-VA.com

    @TCPWare.com

was all that was needed to load the licenses.  It was the first time I tried
that technique, and it was much easier than the way I used to do it.  


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Kevin
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