[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-06-17, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:
> On 6/17/2019 7:18 AM, Andrew Brehm wrote:
>> On Friday, 14 June 2019 15:20:40 UTC+2, John H. Reinhardt  wrote:
>>> <https://training.vmssoftware.com/hobbyist/?fbclid=IwAR2Fen_xpZ9EKGsI4ERi9Pzii-HJkwGXJLVNxLn97SDX7v5OTUnu2S9-NPQ>
>>>
>>> To be blunt, this is a huge step down from the HP program for us that have our own compatible hardware and want to run it 24/7 or at least not have to redo the license every 180 days.
>>>
>> 
>> It's already better since it comes with a VMS image already licensed and good to go, as opposed to requiring the transmission of license files via a very bad faulty serial line emulator.
>
> I do this regularly and without problems.  Get a better terminal emulator.  Mine works fine.
>

I use the TRANSMIT command in C-Kermit running on Linux, with a small pause
between each line transmitted. Works just fine for me as well.

Simon.

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