🚀 go-pugleaf

In order to print to a new DEClaser 1152 I had to install DECprint Supervisor,
the print symbiont that superscedes CPS.  It turns out that in order
to have it translate ascii files with imbedded escape sequences
an extra license must be purchased.

We just purchased the license and I've loaded it on one of the machines
in our cluster.  Because it has a UNITS limit I can't load it
on other nodes.  If the node it's loaded on goes away (which could be
one of many) I'd like to have my hourly "look for trouble spots" job
automatically load it on an alternate host (assuming the operator
doesn't catch it first).

Since a LICENSE LOAD command realizes it's already loaded somewhere
else there must be an undocumented system call that performs this
task.  EXE$CHECK_LICENSE looks like a promising area to investigate
but of course it's not on the listing CD.

I'd prefer any solution that doesn't involve grungy DCL (e.g.
parsing the output of some command).  I suppose I could have
my hourly job try to load it and check what's in $STATUS but
just for fun I'm also curious if anyone knows how the internal
routines can be accessed.

Jonathan Welch  VAX Systems Manager  Umass/Amherst  JHWELCH@ecs.umass.edu