28 Dec
2021
28 Dec
'21
2:11 a.m.
On 2021-12-28 02:09, John Forecast wrote:
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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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.