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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Binary data file compatibility across machines
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Date: 19 Dec 90 16:37:13 GMT
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bilbo@bisco.kodak.COM (Charles Tryon) writes:

>I have (as I have noted here previously) been using XDR to solve this problem.
>I am wondering, however, how many systems/machines subscribe to this standard?
>We have various flavors of Sun's here (3.4, 4.0.1 Sun3, Sparc) as well as an
>IBM RS/6000 which all know about XDR.  What other machines out there have
>XDR libraries?

On our DECstations running Ultrix (3.1 and 4.0) using sockets causes
lots of functions called xdr_* to be linked in. So obviously an XDR
library does exist. Unfortunately no manual pages do exist for these
functions.
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