Removing OpenVMS license paks

[Glen Slick]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Douglas Taylor <dj.taylor4 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I want to sell a couple of MicroVaxes that I had installed the hobbyist
> OpenVMS software on quite some time ago.
>
> The OpenVMS Hobbyist website says I must delete the license PAKS before I
> transfer the hardware to someone else.
>
> How do you actually do this?

Assuming you can still boot the system and log in to a command prompt,
this should do the trick:

$ LICENSE DELETE *

For reference, see

OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual
Order Number: AA–PVXUF–TK
April 2001
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/documentation/pdf/ovms_73_lmu.pdf