Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!YALE.ARPA!LEICHTER-JERRY From: LEICHTER-JERRY@YALE.ARPA.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax Subject: Re: Message-ID: <8702271841.AA21788@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 27-Feb-87 14:37:46 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8702271841.AA21788 Posted: Fri Feb 27 14:37:46 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 09:35:50 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 31 Approved: info-vax@sri-kl.arpa Hello, I seem to have these files they were on the machine when i inherited it VNX i thinks its some sort of user shell. Can anybody tell me how to get the thing running. Ive also listed the two com files for you. -------------------------- ! Here's the directory ! -------------------------- Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[MARTIN.BACK.VNX] DIR.OUT;1 KITINSTAL.COM;2 SHELL.EXE;1 SHELLSTRT.COM;1 The files you provide are the installation script for upgrading the number of users supported by the DEC/SHELL product to 32. (The licensing for DEC/SHELL is complicated because it contains Unix code, so DEC has an AT&T license, which is based on the number of authorized users.) The upgrade applies to DEC/SHELL V1.0, which is long obsolete. (I don't know what the current version is.) As the command file plainly says, this is a licensed product. If you have a proper license, you should get a current version of DEC/SHELL (if you still want it, of course). Otherwise, these files are of little use, and any use you COULD find for them would violate license agreements with DEC and perhaps AT&T. Either one alone has enough lawyers to keep you busy for several life- times. -- Jerry -------