[Info-vax] openvms licensing

[Bill Cunningham]

"Kevin Monceaux" <Kevin at RawFedDogs.net> wrote in message 
news:mailman.173.1455832779.14919.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com...
> 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.

Oh nice. It takes so long for the license code to print down the monitor. 
Does the DCL above mean your changing RFM to STRMLF ?

Bill