[Simh] Transferring the licence file to the VAX emulator

[Dave L]

the issue here tho is more that the license file is in fact a DCL script  
and not input into LMF itself, and DCL doesn't handle the stream-LF files  
it'll just barf on command line input too long...



On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 17:40:04 -0000, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>  
wrote:

>
>
>> On Dec 17, 2018, at 12:29 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
>>
>> The problem is the license manager code you are running into is  
>> expecting an RMS file, not a Stream I/O.  In the old days, the idea of  
>> 'access methods' was the natural ways OS's did I/O and RMS was VMS's  
>> answer.   Since today's programmers tend to have grown up with  
>> C/C++/Java and stream I/O, you need to think in terms of a programming  
>> 'Framework' that is inflicting some level structure on the file.  FWIW:  
>> Stream style I/O and the STREAM-LF file format was added to VMS to  
>> support VAX11/C, and normal programmers (correctly) started to avoid  
>> RMS (it was funny how quickly the compiler runtime teams abandoned RMS,  
>> but I digress).  But if the code was written assuming RMS (which was  
>> all VMS had for many years), the files need RMS.
>
> That's odd, I thought that (on VMS) you didn't have any choice about  
> using RMS.  Well, not unless doing raw block I/O.
>
> Stream is one of the formats supported by RMS, exactly as fixed and  
> variable records (with prefix length) are.  Actually, stream comes in  
> three flavors, depending on whether the record delimiter is LF, CR, or  
> CR/LF.  RMS-11 also supports these, FWIW.
>
> So unless license manager goes out of its way to enforce a particular  
> record format for its input files, I would think it "should just work",  
> RMS should read the on-disk format and deliver the records (lines)  
> according to the encoding described by the file attributes.
>
> Finally, one suggestion was to transfer the file by cut & paste into a  
> VMS editor; in that case the record format is chosen by the editor when  
> creating the file, and the fact you're pasting from a Unix system is not  
> a factor.
>
> 	paul
>
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