[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program Update

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 8/14/2020 4:21 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
> 

Good point.  Anyway, see the other emails apparently zip on Linux will probably unzip them even if there is a warning message.

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John H. Reinhardt