[rescue] Rescued O2

Sandwich Maker adh at an.bradford.ma.us
Thu Aug 14 14:17:23 CDT 2008


" From: "Jason T" <silent700 at gmail.com>
" 
" On 8/14/08, Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757tech.net> wrote:
" > You may want to backup that specialized software...  If it's rare, it might
" > be worth archiving.
" 
" That's often the case with SGI finds.  I've got a pile of old Indigo
" 2s, Indys and even Personal Irises with unknown, licenensed animation
" software that needs to be recovered.  A lot of them use FlexLM for
" licensing, so the license files are (in theory) present on the drive.

not necessarily.  a place i worked at ~10y ago ran a flexlm server
triad for the site; all they did was serve licenses and all their
flexlm licenses were there.

flexlm is of course supposed to be backward-compatible within itself,
but they had a separate v4 daemon and license file, v5 daemon and
file...
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