[Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

[Timothy Stark]

Make iso image with license paks and attached it to SIMH.  It worked great for me.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Simh <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com> On Behalf Of Brian
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 9:02 AM
To: SIMH <simh at trailing-edge.com>
Subject: Re: [Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

On 12/17/18 8:44 AM, Wilm Boerhout wrote:
> Brian schreef op 17-12-2018 om 14:28
> 
> [snip]
>> I really don't want to have to enter all the licence data 
>> interactively, or fix a couple of thousand line endings in the editor!
>> There must be SOME way of getting the file onto a new setup?
>>
>> Thanks for any assistance,
>>
>> Brian.
> 
> What usually works for me:
> 
>  * open the license command file  file in your mail program / in a
>    notepad on your Linux host.
>  * Open a TPU editor session on your OPA0 simh console terminal
>  * Copy/Paste the License file text into the TPU editor window.
> 
> If you get buffer overflows on VMS, try it with just the TCP/IP 
> license (called UCX for hysterical reasons), then setup IP networking 
> and ftp on VMS.
> 

OK, thanks, I'll give it a try later today and report back. If anybody can tell me in simple terms, though, I would like to understand why the route of going via an ISO didn't work. Is it not possible to transfer text files to the VAX other than via cut-and-paste without the line endings getting mangled?

Brian.
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