[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program Update

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/14/20 10:34 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> On 8/14/2020 9:27 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 8/14/20 10:06 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>>> On 8/14/2020 8:43 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> On 8/12/20 9:39 AM, VMS Software Inc. wrote:
>>>>> Dear community members,
>>>>>
>>>>> After the community license was officially released, we saw many 
>>>>> questions regarding the license agreement and decided to review the 
>>>>> agreement once again and answer the questions before sending out 
>>>>> any licenses to avoid misunderstanding. Today we published the 
>>>>> amended agreement and answered the most frequently asked questions 
>>>>> here: https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=116&p=426#p426
>>>>>
>>>>> We are now replying to license requests.Thank you for your patience.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours respectfully,
>>>>>
>>>>> VMS Software Community License Team
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Got home from vacation to find mine waiting in my INBOX. Downloaded
>>>> the stuff from the Community page.  Now I just need to figure out
>>>> what a .ZIPEXE is.  Somehow I have a feeling it isn't going to do
>>>> anything on my Ubuntu system.  :-(
>>>>
>>>> bill
>>>
>>> The ZIPEXE are self extracting ZIP files.  They only run on VMS 
>>> unfortunately.  Which is a bootstrapping problem if you don't already 
>>> have one running.
>>>
>>> That is probably another thing we may have to ask VSI change and have 
>>> them put plain "ISO" disk images in the download area that can be 
>>> written to disk or used as a virtual disk.
>>>
>>
>> Good that I got an explanation, but bad in that I have no working
>> VMS that can do it.  I doubt they would run on my VAX.  :-)
>>
>> bill
>>
> 
> They might..  I did not try as I had a running DS10 with OpenVMS
> 

How could a VAX run an Alpha executable?  Sounds like a feature
I never ran into before.  :-)

bill