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From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Sun's RPC/XDR code
Keywords: RPC,XDR,Sun
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Date: 21 Aug 89 18:46:04 GMT
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In article <24EE3BF3.440B@marob.masa.com>, samperi@marob.masa.com
(Dominick Samperi) writes:
> 
> I would like to start from Sun's PD RPC/XDR code and implement RPC's under
> VAX/VMS (with the VMS/Ultrix TCP/IP and Socket library), the aim being to
> enable a VMS system to make transparent remote procedure calls to a more
> powerful UNIX server. I see that there are three versions of the Sun code
> in the archive: rpc, rpc2, and rpc3.9. I assume that rpc3.9 is the latest
> version. I also see that the relevant rfc's are 1057 (RPC) and 1014 (XDR).
> 
> Before I begin, I wonder if others have tried to do this. If so, could you
> perhaps comment on your experiences, the difficulties involved, etc.?
> Why don't vendors (like DEC) make life easier by including RPC/XDR with
> their TCP/IP products? Is it because there is no official standard?

Actually, Ultrix uses RPC to implement NFS.  I have written a few
programs using RPC under Ultrix, and while there were one or two problems
that I had to work-around, it works fairly well.

The problem is that DEC doesn't support it so there is no documentation
about how to use it from DEC.   Now, if you have a Sun machine around...

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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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