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From: wunder@HP-SES.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
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Subject: Re: Are sockets the wave of the future?
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Date: 31 Aug 90 17:15:04 GMT
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>The non-network implementation of such usually consists of write/puts/printf
>to stdout, but RPC doesn't seem to contain a stream type, such that you keep
>reading from it until EOF.

NCS 2.0 has exactly that feature -- indeterminate-length
streams of typed data.  OSF cites that as one of the reasons
for adopting NCS 2.0 in the the OSF Distributed Computing
Environment.  See the OSF DCE Rationale.

wunder