[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program Update

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-08-14 kl. 23:32, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> On 8/14/20 10:44 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2020-08-14 kl. 16:06, skrev John H. Reinhardt:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Or a ZIP'ed ISO, if that saves any measurable file space.
> 
> It appears they are zipped ISO's.
> 
> bill
> 

In a way. They are ZIP'ed ISO's having an Alpha EXE preamble to make
them self-executable (on Alpha, of course).

Of cource I meant clean ZIP files that you could unpack anyware.
On VMS, you'll need UNZIP also, but you could extract the files on
any environment and just FTP them over to your target system.