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Flex-enabled applications use the following rules for choosing a license file to use

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Flex-enabled applications use the following rules for choosing a license file to use:

1. If a license search path is set using either the VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE or LM_LICENSE_FILE (where VENDOR is the vendor daemon name) environment variable, it is used. VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE is used first. VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE is used only by products from the VENDOR and by lmutil and LMTOOLS.
2. The environment variables VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE and/or LM_LICENSE_FILE can also be set in the Windows registry or, on UNIX, in $HOME/.flexlmrc. The Windows registry is in \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\FLEXlm License Manager. VENDOR_LICENSE_FILE is also automatically set upon successful checkout.
3. License server utilities accept the argument -c license_file_list , which specifies the license paths. If this is set, the environment variables are ignored.
4. If none of the other locations is specified, then the following default location is used. Relying on this default location is not recommended.
   On Unix, the default location is /usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat. On Windows, the default location is C:\flexlm\license.dat.