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

John Forecast john at forecast.name
Mon Dec 27 17:09:30 PST 2021


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> PMR as a separate program might originate on TOPS-10 since it has a program by that name that also provides the equivalent service on ANF-10.  Someone posted the source of that recently (a year ago or so, perhaps).  I don't remember ever seeing a protocol spec for the PMR protocol.  Since I have the RSTS source code (it's a program PMR.BAS, in Basic-PLUS) I can reverse engineer such a spec, that's on my "soon" list.  I don't remember if PMR was included with the DECnet kit.  It's a pretty small and simple program.
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> 	paul

The only specification I saw was a 2 page email from someone on STAR:: I think. Both RSX and Ultrix provided an (unsupported?) library routine to connect directly or via PMR depending on the supplied connection string. I don’t remember either system including an actual executable for PMR.

  John.




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