[Info-vax] Burning cd for use in OpenVMS

[George Cornelius]

In article <q8ftnb$rk6$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> I know some folks seek to use modern approaches with ancient OpenVMS 
> releases, but there are other and usually easier better ways to get the 
> initial three licenses loaded.
> 
> With OpenVMS, a serial console connection is somewhere between useful 
> and a necessity when things go sideways, too.  The graphics console 
> only gets you so far, and with limitations.

Does not apply here, but remember that if you have another VMS
host and are at the unlicensed node's console, you can use
LAT$STARTUP.COM to start LAT - does not require a license - and
then (assuming LAT enabled on the other host),

  $ SET HOST/LAT host2

      or

  S SET HOST/LAT/LOG host2

At host2 use a TYPE command to display the license(s) and then
either cut and paste it into a local file or edit the logfile
to isolate the license info.

Once a few key licenses are loaded you can enable DECnet or
TCP/IP and transfer the others.

George

 P.S. LAT$STARTUP either requires command line parameters
 or editing LAT$SYSTARTUP.COM (to specify the parameters
 such as whether outgoing LAT connections are allowed,
 hostname, LAT device (or use LAT$DEVICE), and LAT groups
 (2 kinds)).  If you have defined LAT$DEVICE you may be
 able to take defaults on everything - except for making
 sure outbound LAT connections are enabled.