[Info-vax] LMF Licence Generator Code
El SysMan
aaa.vms at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 06:45:41 EDT 2023
On Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 7:55:23 AM UTC+3, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> I had a look at the original pakgen.c source from mirrors.pdp-11.ru. I get the impression somebody disassembled a bunch of VAX machine language, then did a straight transliteration into C code.
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> So I thought I would clean it up a bit. And I managed to knock its size down by a couple hundred lines. I also wrote a Python version, which is less than half the size of the original, and also add a few features. For example, I was able to add the HARDWARE_ID, TOKEN and VERSION atttributes by guessing at their codes. So far I haven’t been able to figure out the RELEASE_DATE and TERMINATION_DATE attributes, most likely because I can’t get the right date-encoding format.
Do search for "VMS Liberation Front" of "VMS Liberation Front packgen":-) El Commandante (The) already have did all work for u.
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