[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <tg83tq$eefm$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> > Back to the license stuff.  They have a file which is used on VMS which
> > was zipped.  Why not zip it on VMS?  Or at least pretend to be a
> > customer and test whatever they send out before sending it out.
> 
> Since it is a licens file that might be used for a system with
> no previous license, it might be best to make sure that it is
> readable on your desktop system to be copy/pasted into the
> console using some terminal emulator.
> 
> Not having some unique VMS record format that just becomes
> a mess if tried to be read on some other system.

It should be both.  Yes, it should be possible to read it elsewhere and 
type it in.  But most licenses are renewed before the old one expires, 
so it is nice to be able to just execute the procedure.