9 Sep
2001
9 Sep
'01
8:58 p.m.
Chuck McManis wrote:
At 10:41 AM 9/8/01 -0500, Eric wrote:
AFAIK, the PAKGEN program that third parties
were allowed to purchase would only
generate PAKs in the name of that
third party. So simply having PAKGEN
would not allow you to generate DEC PAKs!
OTOH several people reverse-engineered
the PAK checksum and at least one
company were selling a PAKGEN-like service
until they were "leaned on".
Antonio
Of course a PAK generator solves the problem of
missing PAKs
quite nicely.
Yes it does, however I am dearly afraid that with HP and
Compaq doing the
dance that the lore of such things will be permanently lost
at some point.