[Info-vax] Burning cd for use in OpenVMS

Marco Beishuizen mbeis.vms at xs4all.nl
Mon Apr 8 08:32:51 EDT 2019


On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, the wise Jan-Erik Söderholm via Info-vax wrote:

> You don't have access to the console? Just cut-n-paste the TCPIP license 
> (and any other needed to get running system and a network connection) 
> and register/load it. Startup TCPIP and transfer the rest of the 
> licenses...

I have access to the console, but the license has expired, so everything 
including tcpip is disabled. The only way of copying anything to the 
machine is by cdrom. But using a cdrom drive in OpenVMS isn't as easy as 
it should.

Luckily the trick with antedating the machine works.

Regards,


-- 
Time will end all my troubles,
but I don't always approve of Time's methods.


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