Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!beame
From: beame@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Beame)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: RPC on sockets on MSDOS?
Message-ID: <273798C7.29086@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 7 Nov 90 05:16:55 GMT
References: <9370001@hpislx.HP.COM>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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In article <9370001@hpislx.HP.COM> geske@hpislx.HP.COM (Brent Geske) writes:
>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)

 Have you looked at Netwise RPC. Their RPC runs over many TCP/IP for DOS 
packages. Their main product is their RPC, so it has to be good.         


	- Carl Beame
	Beame@McMaster.CA