[Info-vax] Burning cd for use in OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-04-08 kl. 14:32, skrev Marco Beishuizen:

> 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...

No, it is not. You are using some terminal emulator connected
to the console port, not? (I could not imagine anyone having an
old VTxxx terminal today, if not purely for historical reasons).

Just enter CRE SOMEFILE.COM and hit enter.
Then cut-n-paste from the license mail whatever you need.
Press ctrl-Z when ready.
You now have a command file ready to be run as usual.

Jan-Erik.



> But using a cdrom drive in OpenVMS isn't as easy as it should.
> 
> Luckily the trick with antedating the machine works.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>