> These instructions apply just to the 3.1.4B DX Personal Edition. 
> Our website
> should be updated shortly with 13 March 2001 keys.  Please, if 
> there problems
> with OpenDX under NT with cygwin that preclude you using it,

The NT Cygwin/LessTif combination from Opendx.org does not do
a Registry check there they could co exists on the same machine.

The problems, I mentioned relates to Cygwin/Exceed combination or
compiling OpenDx with MSVC/Exceed turns on License checking.  We really
need to remove the license code for MSVC from OpenDX.

Suhaib



> it is best to
> raise the issues now.  Neither we, nor the 3.1.4B binaries, are 
> getting any
> younger!
> 
> For 3.1.4B, dx -register does not update the UserName or 
> CompanyName, which
> must match that used to generate the key.  It sounds as if you originally
> installed with your own key.  If so, you will have to either 
> reinstall dxpc
> (be careful not to lose your dx customizations) or alter the 
> windows registry
> w/ regedit (be careful not to lose your whole machine!).  The 
> items that need
> to be modified to match the "transition" key are in
> 
>     My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBM\IBM Visualization Data
> Explorer\CurrentVersion.
> 
> Make the UserName "Visualization Data Explorer" and the 
> CompanyName "Any" .
> 
> >Key generated for Windows NT/95 machine
> >User: Visualization Data Explorer
> >Company: Any
> >Expiration time = Tue Mar 13 10:37:46 2001
> >  -> Note: l is lower case L, 1 is one, O is upper case o, 0 is zero
> 
> >The key is: dogtt 0015 7683 9040
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > I successfully installed IBM's commercial version of DX on an NT in
> > December, 1999 after receiving a transition key via email from 
> IBM. Now I
> > am attempting to install IBM DX on another NT with the transition key
> > posted on IBM's website, but I can only use the trial version 
> of DX for 5
> > minutes. Does anyone know what transition key to use?
> >
> > Also, I understand that the transition keys will expire in the next few
> > weeks. Is there any way I can continue to use the DX version 
> I've already
> > installed? I understand that the open-source DX for NT is 
> better run under
> > Linux, but I don't want to install a new operating system just 
> to run DX.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Dick Yager
> > USGS, Ithaca, NY

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