[Info-vax] Updating expired VSI timed license

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-07-20, Dennis Boone <drb at ihatespam.msu.edu> wrote:
> > - login via console (not via network - only via console)
> > - enter the new license manually (unpleasant typing but possible)
>
> If you have the PAKs in the form of LICENSE REGISTER commands:
>
> FSVO using a PC of some sort as the console terminal, you should be able
> to copypasta the commands into the terminal session.  You may have to do
> them a line-or-few at a timeto prevent overflowing a buffer, but it's
> still better than typing the whole thing in.
>

C-Kermit's TRANSMIT command, with the various delays you can
insert, can be very useful here. It's how I have traditionally
transferred new hobbyist licences from Linux if the old hobbyist
licence had already expired.

Simon.

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