[HECnet] PSTHRU.EXE poor-man routing object 123 for VMS on VAX

[Thomas DeBellis]

Repositories are tough because they have to be refreshed, sometimes with 
data, sometimes with protocol updates and if the provider 
disappears...   Pack rats pass away or their collections get destroyed 
or discarded for one reason or the other.  Museums close for any number 
of reasons.  It's a bit of a bummer.  No it's bummer when I think about 
KS Tops-20 5.0, multi-CPU TENEX, Scribe, I could go on and on.

The only thing that really works is redundancy; keeping things in a 
bunch of different places and hoping for the best.

It has been my intention to offer the beginnings of such repositories 
for HECnet after I get a few more things finished (get out of the Rabbit 
hole, Tom...)  I've got bucket loads of space just begging to put put 
into a cluster.

Could you elaborate on what 'poor man' routing means, just so I'm sure I 
have the correct context?  I know that this term existed for 20's route 
NRT sessions.  It doesn't exist for CTERM.  I don't /think/ I remember 
seeing it for DAP/FAL/NFT.
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> On 12/26/21 3:38 PM, G. wrote:
>
> After many months I was able to access again some VAX system where I 
> had stored some interesting bits, and among them the VAX version of 
> PSTHRU.EXE, i.e. the DECnet poor-man routing object for VMS.
>
> I do not remember at all where I found it in the first place, and it 
> is nowhere to be found online (there is a namesake file for TOPS-10 
> though).
>
> I could send it to whoever wants it or, if I'm allowed, I could just 
> send it to the mailing list: it's a tiny 6 kB ZIP file with a BACKUP 
> saveset inside.
>
> The saveset contains the executable image, its related DCL procedure, 
> and a text file that lists the NCP commands to activate it.
>
> The object could generate some optional debug log and apparently 
> (looking at the dump of the executable image) could access some 
> PSTHRU.DAT I don't have any clue about. Also, I wonder if it could be 
> VESTed.
>
> It would be nice if it could end up in some repository, at least to 
> avoid losing it again...
>
> Let me know, :)
> G.
>
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