[Info-vax] VLF Notes: VMware ESXi for VSI/VMS hobbyists

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:16:09 +1100, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:

> We do regret not releasing the LMFgen in the proper, and fitting,
> manner which was originally intended, back in 2012 - as BLISS, and
> VAXC, full source code - also compiled for VAX and AXP, and designed
> for integration as DCL Verbs. We also intended to write the LMFgen as
> a DCL Command Script, so that it was comprehensible to any VMS person
> - DCL is capable of great elegance - the joys of lexical discourse!

I got hold of that C code, which looked to me like some kind of straight 
transliteration of a disassembly of VAX code straight into C. I did try to 
clean it up a bit and make it easier to understand what was going on. I 
also did a Python version, which added more features.

Should I make that available somewhere?

> Note: IPFS downloads (at least on Windows) can lose file extensions -
> simply tack ".rar" to the end of the downloaded file.

Fun fact: every time I’ve extracted a .rar file and reencoded it as .7z, 
the .7z version was smaller.