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Name: quack322
Date: June 14, 2005 at 16:53:28 Pacific
Subject: transfer license files
OS: OpenVMS AXP 7.2
CPU/Ram: AXP

Comment:

Hi, I have a Digital AlphaServer 800 with a freshly installed (hobbyist) OPENVMS 7.2. I have already registered the base "OPENVMS-ALPHA" license by manually typeing it in. Now they sent me the layered products license in my email. Its hundreds of licenses and typeing them in manually is out of the question. They appear to be in com format but the ONLY way I have to transfer the file to my alpha is by burning a cd. When I burn it and place it on the hd of my alpha, and do $ @ lic.com it comes up with many errors like the / was at the begginig if a line. And it has random errors saying that numbers are at the begginig of a line.I have transfereed the same file over the reflection protocol to another working alphaserver and it goes through fine.
Now how do I register these licenses?
--Thanks

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Response Number 1

Name: erensm
Date: June 16, 2005 at 15:46:53 Pacific
Subject: transfer license files

Reply: (edit)

How does it look when you view the file in an editor ? Are the $$$$ signs at the beginning of the line ?

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Response Number 2

Name: nevesr
Date: June 17, 2005 at 10:53:56 Pacific
Subject: transfer license files

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I received my license keys by email so it was possible to cut, past and cleanup lines, and run it as a license load. Hope that helps if you can get a electronic/e-mail copy.

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Response Number 3

Name: Bob Gezelter
Date: June 23, 2005 at 09:15:40 Pacific
Subject: transfer license files

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Quack322,
OK, you have received the email from the hobbyist site with the license commands.
First, remember that the .COM file under OpenVMS is a text file that is interpreted as a script by the command interpreter DCL, not a binary executable as it is under MS-DOS and Windows.
It is often easier to rename it as a .TXT file. DCL really does not care (although its default filetype is .COM). Burn the TEXT file onto a standard CDROM (the format will be ISO 9660).
Go to your OpenVMS system. Mount the CDROM drive. You should be able to see the file.
Copy the file to a temporary location on the OpenVMS system. TYPE the file to your terminal/terminal window. It should have the same appearance as it did when you received it.
Now, execute the file by typing "@filename" at the command prompt. The file should be executed by DCL and the licenses added to the database.
I hope that the above is helpful.
- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

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