[HECnet] Spinning a license for VMS

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
You were thinking "Who's he?" of course. John Egolf. That's the chap
behind the hobbyist program. Oddly enough whilst waiting for both of
these I remembered that the same company also provided disks
containing an OS, all they needed was the license to be provided.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 05/14/2014 09:43 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Okay I have the images, I have a license file. He sent it as a text
file, however he also says its a DCL script. (That's the scripting
language behind VMS, correct?)

  Well, atop VMS, but yes/

He also presents instructions on where to go from there, that is how to spin it further.

But has anyone here been successful at doing so using his
instructions, or did they happen to have their own magic for doing so?

  I dunno who "he" is, but VMS licenses are typically distributed (these
days) as a couple of lines (actually one line, with continuations) of
DCL, starting with LICENSE REGISTER, followed by the appropriate
parameters.   Just run that command, then do LICENSE LOAD, and you should
be good to go.

And of course the important question is restoring the OS from the CD
to the OS disks. Outside of the SIMH steps, is there a page for doing
so, using the Charon freely available emulators?

  In the VMS install docs, yes, but you can use the SIMH steps just
fine.   Just remember to change vms072.b to vms073.b, if applicable.

                            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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