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

[John Forecast]

> On Dec 27, 2021, at 8:11 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-12-28 02:09, John Forecast wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 	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.
> 
> 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.
> 
It’s $CONN documented in [200,200]PMR.DOC.

  John.