Ah! you're talking about what we used to call Polish
routing (probably an ethnic slur in there somewhere,
and if so, I apologize.) Back in the very early days
of networking, paths between machines were not handled
automatically, so if your machine knew of a neighbor
called DOG and DOG knew of a neighbor called TREES and
TREES knew about a neighbor called CAT, from your machine
you'd address CAT like this DOG::TREES::CAT

InterBase used to support addressing like that - you'd
need InterBase installed on DOG and TREES as well as
your system and CAT, but DOG would bounce the connection
along to TREES and TREES on to CAT. Some bright spark
broke that sometime in V5 or early V6.



Regards,

Ann
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