27 Dec
2021
27 Dec
'21
12:04 a.m.
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.