VAX license pak issues -- resolution (an easy way around data entry)

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_bg-tc-ppp1558.monmouth.com>
Date: Fri Jul 27 08:13:44 2001

FYI -- for those folks who were offerring suggestions to my VAX
license problems -- here's the resolution which eliminated a lot
of data entry...

> Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms
> Subject: Re: VAX/VMS Hobby PAK license question/problem
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> In article <3B601374.40726FF2_at_gsfc.nasa.gov>,
> Robert DiRosario <robert.j.dirosario.1_at_gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> >>I've relicensed three times and every time it doesn't take it.
> >
> >I had the same problems on my M48. You don't need the S/N for the license
> >to work.. If you look at the licenses, you'll notice they are DCL commands.
> >Just type them in at the command line. I've had no problems entering them
> >from the command line, but couldn't get them to work using the LMF menu.
>
Thank you... that was my problem exactly.

The fix for the problem was for me to take the license files from
the Hobbyist program and burn 'em to cdrom as .com files
and just _at_license[123].com them.
 
Once I figured out the mount options
mount /over=id /media_format=cdrom /undefined_fat=stream:2048 dkb500:

I was set. Motif Decwindows and EDT... YEAH.

Now to get DECnetPlus and TCP/IP up.,. and load the layered products.
Basic, Pascal, C, Fortran... VMS on Vax --that's a REAL Computer (tm).

Bill

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