definitely used something similar on VAX/VMS called VMS_SHARE (https://www.glaver.org/ftp/multinet-contributed-software/vms_share/vms_share.user_guide https://w

definitely used something similar on VAX/VMS called VMS_SHARE (https://www.glaver.org/ftp/multinet-contributed-software/vms_share/vms_share.user_guide https://www.glaver.org/ftp/multinet-contributed-software/vms...) circa '90-91 in fact I found an old archive of mine floating around on usenet and wrote a python script to unpack it. Looking at the original, it was using a scripting. language bootstrap to make a COM script unpack embedded the original code.