[Info-vax] Goodbye VAX

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 1/8/2022 8:29 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/8/22 9:12 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <k8phtg1c91pkfs7acaq102c04g4kd5bneh at 4ax.com>, Subcommandante XDelta <vlf at star.enet.dec.com> writes:

>>> With specific application to the expiration of VAX licenses.
>>>
>>> Here is our RCE remedy from October 2012, the 35th Anniversary of VMS:
>>>
>>> LiBREVMS.LMFGEN.OpenVMS.Tru64.OSF1.ULTRIX.v1.2.WinALL.x86.x64.KEYGEN-VLF
>>>
>>> File-hosts:
>>>
>>> https://www.mirrored.to/files/0LOAT2SY/
>>
>> ... and this gets me what?
>>
> 
> Apparently a scan of my Linux system and then a notice that my Norton
> is out of date.
> 
> bill

If you spin up a sacrificial Linux host (either VM or bare metal - bare metal preferred) and:
1) download the file - a .RAR file
2) take the system off line of ANY network
3) unpack the RAR file
4) you find
   a) a PAKGEN Windows exe
   b) the pacgen.c source
   c) a set of PAKs covering 1400+ DEC products for VAX with unlimited units and no termination date.
   d) some VLF manifesto junk

No guarantees the Windows exe is virus free but the PAKs and the pakgen.c files are a plain text so fairly incorruptible.

-- 
John H. Reinhardt