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From: sxn@SUN.COM (Stephen X. Nahm)
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Subject: Re: RPC Library sources for System V
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Date: 22 Jun 89 20:37:05 GMT
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In article <120@xicom.UUCP> alex@xicom.UUCP (Alex Laney) writes:
>My news feed was missing for most of April and May, so I may have missed
>Sun RPC 4.0. Anyone know for certain if it has been posted?

Not that I know of.  I sent an upgrade package (RPCSRC 3.9-to-4.0) to the
comp.sources.unix moderator in November; still hasn't shown up here.

But you can get the full RPCSRC 4.0 package from several places:

1) It appeared on the Sun User's group "SEX" tape in the rpc4.0 directory.

2) It is available via anonymous ftp from bcm.tmc.edu and from the
   archive-server@bcm.tmc.edu.  If you use the archive server, send mail to
   archive-server@bcm.tmc.edu with a Subject of "send nfs index" to see all the
   names of the files.  There are 17 shar files in RPCSRC and 4 for secure rpc.

3) I also dropped it off at titan.rice.edu (the sun-spots archive).  It was
   still sitting in the "incoming" ftp directory there the last time I looked.

You can also order it from Sun for $100, but if the tape isn't in stock it will
take several weeks to get it.  Call 800-USA-4SUN and ask for:

    RPC-4.0-X-X-5   For 1/4" cartridge tar tape
    RPC-4.0-X-X-6   For 1/2" 1600BPI tar tape; or

The major new thing in RPCSRC 4.0 over 3.9 (besides some minor bug fixes and
enhancements) is the inclusion of Secure RPC.  Unfortunately, I could not
include any DES code, which is required.  (The rest of RPCSRC 4.0 was set up to
not require Secure RPC, so the main library still works.)  I'm hoping to get
some time to write an interface between the Secure RPC code and the DES code
that was posted to comp.sources.unix a while back.  (Has anyone already done
this?)

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Steve Nahm                              sxn@sun.COM or sun!sxn