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From: geske@hpislx.HP.COM (Brent Geske)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: RPC on sockets on MSDOS?
Message-ID: <9370001@hpislx.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Nov 90 05:05:42 GMT
Organization: Measurement Systems Operation - Loveland, CO
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So, with all the recent discussion about how to get TCP/IP running on a PC
with this or that LAN card, how about a slightly different question:

I'd like to be able to create a RPC (Remote Procedure Call) client on a PC
which talks to a Unix server over the LAN.  If I use Sun's RPC code, I need
to have sockets on the PC side (built on top of either TCP or UDP) before I
can use the standard RPC mechanism.

I'm wondering if anyone has ported SUN's RPC code to run on top of some
MSDOS socket layer running on top of some TCP/IP layer?  If not, I'm gonna
port the RPC layer provided I can find a socket layer which "works."

Has RPC been ported?  If not, what's a "good" socket layer to try and get?

Brent A. Geske
geske@hpisla.hp.com

(also, geske%hpisla@hplabs.hp.com)