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This is an ancient post with no relevance to modern systems.
On modern releases, look in /var/adm/ISL/iqm_file.
If you registered with SCO, they can give you your license information for a small fee.
Allan Clark supplied this:
The SCO Serial Number and Activation Key (SNAK) actually has three parts:
Serial Number Activation Key License Data (optional) On OpenServer: SN: grep IQM_SERIAL_NUMBER /var/adm/ISL/iqm_file AK: grep IQM_ACTIVATION_KEY /var/adm/ISL/iqm_file LD: grep ANNOTATION_LINE /var/adm/ISL/iqm_file
Now, SCO has more than just OpenServer, and I don't know which you have. Here's the UnixWare equiv:
SN: grep SerialID /var/adm/isl/ifile AK: grep ActKey /usr/vam/isl/ifile LD: grep LicenseData /var/adm/isl/ifile
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