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From: sxn%ingersoll@Sun.COM (Stephen X. Nahm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: NFS Connectathon
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Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 18:58:26 EST
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Summary: RPCSRC 3.9 ships 12/2
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In article <32909@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>Proprietary?  Absolutely not!  The Sun RPC protocol spec, and the NFS protocol
>spec describing how NFS uses the Sun RPC mechanism, are publicly available.

The next version of Sun's free RPC/XDR implementation is scheduled to
ship on December 2nd.  This release is called 3.9 RPCSRC, and
contains the latest versions of the RPC library, rpcgen (the RPC
protocol compiler), documentation (including the RFCs for RPC,
XDR and NFS that were submitted to the ARPA community, plus a new
rpcgen manual) and RPC service specification files for various services,
including NFS (note: this is *not* "NFS"; it's the service
specification for NFS; read on...)

These specification files can be fed into rpcgen, which will produce
the XDR routines and skeletons for the server and client sides of the
services.  You will have to supply the procedures that implement the
service (such as reading and writing files, etc., in the case of NFS)
yourself.

I will submit this release to comp.sources.unix, and I have been
informed that the sun-spots archive at rice will also have it
available.  As a last resort, you can get it from Sun for a $100 tape
copying fee.  Details on the latter will be posted to comp.newprod
after the 12/2 ship date.
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Steve Nahm                              sxn@sun.COM or sun!sxn
for The Portable NFS Team