[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-09-15 kl. 06:23, skrev Steven Schweda:
>> Just got a mail with a link to:
>>
>> "Community license for Alpha servers, valid until September 2023".
> 
>     My e-mail had links labelled "Get your Integrity license" and "Get
> your Alpha license".
> 
>> Downloaded a COM file LMF commands for ALPHA-SYSTEM and ALPHA-LP.
> 
>     My links led to ".zip" archives (so no ".COM" problem):
> 
>        ALPHA_COMMUNITY_LICENSE_PAK.zip
>        INTEGRITY_COMMUNITY_LICENSE_PAK.zip
>

Sure, but the Windows Explorer shows the zip content and you can
open the file from there. But if the file has an .COM extension,
you do not get all the right-click options, such as e.g. Notepad.

If the file is first saved to an uncompressed directory, a right-
click gives the usual file handling options, including Notepad.
No big deal...

That worked fine in this case, but sometimes the COM files has
VMS file attributes that implies line/record endings that are
not understod, and it is just displayed as a mass of text.
Need to first unzip on VMS to be able to read the text files.

And it is no big deal, I simply rename it to xxx_COM.TXT in my
laptop repository of VMS related files.