[Info-vax] Goodbye VAX

[Subcommandante XDelta]

Dear Mr Reinhardt,

The VLF thank you very much for taking comp.os.vms on a guided tour,
sheltered workshop, of our, 2012, LMFGEN release, along the path to
relieving themselves of any VAX/VMS misery, it is very much
appreciated. And we do also compliment you on your ultra-dry sense of
humour.

The principal inaccuracy is that we did not release our source code,in
that release, you must be conflating that with some other PAKGEN kit
floating about.

As for the VLF Manifesto - well, we're old as the hills, over the
hill, mad as hell, quite possibly mad, pissed off, oft pissed, but
rarely off-piste, in our perspectives and analysis - but we would say
that, we're the VLF Liberation Front, after all. :-)

In furtherance of the VLF thesis, in general, and the VAX/VMS hot
retrieval mission, in particular:

https://pastebin.com/AB8xvgd7

The 'Pastebin' text snippet website benchmarks "safe to visit".

To the comp.os.vms collegiate: In regards to analogous VAX/VMS,
"Tyrell Corporation Nexus-6 Replicant Termination Date", problem - if
any VMS hobbyist, or VMS shop, for that matter, that you know, or are
aware of, is suffering, then relieve them of their misery, forthwith,
thank you very much.

As you have said, Mr Reinhardt:

"VAX/VMS is dead. Long Live VAX/VMS!"

We can all carry on.

Best regards,

VLF: The VMS Liberation Front
In VMS We Trust.

PS: VMS - Unstoppable!

digital.VAX.VMS.20.Years.1977.To.1997.eBook-digital.pdf
https://krakenfiles.com/view/BN9F0iuGjp/file.html

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On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 11:49:29 -0600, "John H. Reinhardt"
<johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> wrote:

>On 1/8/2022 11:41 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>> 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 is out of date.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.
>> 
>
>I forgot step #5
>
>5) Wipe that Linux system down to the ground because you've satisfied your curiosity and that's the right thing to do.
>
>VAX/VMS is dead.  Long Live VAX/VMS