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

Paul Koning explained it way better than I could do. In VMS both PHONE and SET HOST, when presented with a PMR address, establish a pass-through connection via intermediate nodes thanks to object 123 and its related PSTHRU.EXE helper. Not by chance both PHONE.EXE and RTPAD.EXE call some UNS$NET_CONNECT routine, where UNS obviously stands for unsupported. Other tools or functions such as MAIL and RMS use their own mechanisms to do the same. I agree with you about repositories, hence I'm trying to spread PSTHRU.EXE around to avoid losing it again :) HTH, G.