[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program Update

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/14/20 10:43 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/14/2020 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.  :-(
>>
>> 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.
> 
> .ZIPEXE may be self extracting, but aren't they still ZIP
> compatible meaning that UNZIP can still process them?
> 
> Arne
> 
> 


You may be right.  I just ran "unzip -v" against them on my Ubuntu
machine and it listed an ISO contained in the ZIP file.

bill