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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-12-28 02:09, John Forecast wrote:
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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
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> 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.

A PMR.TSK does exist for RSX. Unless I remember wrong, it's among the 
"unsupported" utilities.
Not sure I've seen any library function, but that might just mean I 
haven't looked.

   Johnny

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