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

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 00:56:44 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:

>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?

Well, yes, why not, advance the state of the art, VMS soldier!

Review all the code commentary, closely, to ensure that the code is
comprehensible as possible.

In the first instance, post it to several text snippet sites, as
permanent pastes-snippets, such as at PasteBin, remembering to making
the snippet name as informative as possible, for non-comprehensive
example:

DEC VMS LMF LMFgen Pakgen Source Code

Secondly, I'd search for conversations, in the search engines, that
mention lmfgen and pakgen, old and more recent, and see where
annotating those conversations might be useful.

Upload to the Usenet Binaries (ngPost is excellent).

Upload to the IPFS system - in both cases make your archive names are
very informative.

Bear in mind that you are doing all of this, declared from your IRL
identity.

However, any one any where getting apoplectically apocalyptic at the
prospect of a handful of VMS old-hands being able to maintain their
beloved VAC/VMS and AXP/VMS hobbyist systems going in a state of
dignity and perpetuity, should really get s life.

Padawan pro-tip: don't post the source code directly (link
indirecttions only) to to comp.os.vms! - we are all getting on, and we
don't want any medical incidents. :-)