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From: corbin@nibroc.Eng.Sun.COM (John Corbin)
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Subject: Re: Books on RPC programming?
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Date: 3 Aug 90 07:28:46 GMT
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In article <28186@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM> joshua@Atherton.COM (Flame Bait) writes:
>Also, Springer-Verlag has a book planned for July 1990 called "Remote 
>Procedure Call Programming-Writing Networked Applications" by J. Corbin.
>ISBN 97247-1  (order by calling 1-800-SPRINGER).  Does anybody have
>this book?  Is it any good?  What level of programmer is aimed at?
>And finally is J. Corbin on the net?

The book will not be out until November 1990.  The title has been changed
to "The Art of Writing Distributed Applications using Remote Procedure Calls".
The ISBN is still the same.  Of course I think that the book is good, but
that is my biased opinion.

The book is aimed at an experienced C programmer.  You do not need prior
networking experience or familarity with the UNIX operating system.
It is a reference book with examples and should be useful to both new and
experienced users of Sun's RPC Library.

Here is the table of contents:

Chapter		Title
1		Introduction and Overview
2		eXternal Data Representation
3		RPC Protocol
4		RPC Programming
5		Low Level RPC Programming
6		Additional RPC Library Features
7		Rpcgen
8		Developing RPC-based Distributed Applications
9		Future Directions of RPC Programming

Appendicies:
1		Sun RPC Information (getting program and authentication numbers)
2		XDR Specification
3		RPC: Protocol Specification
4		Differences Between the RPC Library on SunOS 4.0 and 4.1

I am on the net and any feedback on the book would be appreciated.

John Corbin (jcorbin@Sun.COM)