Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!datacube!shep
From: shep@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.notes
Subject: Notes Across NFS
Message-ID: <107300002@datacube>
Date: 11 Dec 87 21:14:00 GMT
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!shep    Dec 11 16:14:00 1987



Hi. We've been running notes on our Pyramid 90X for about three years now.
I'm not sure what version we have except that Rich Salz came in about a year
ago to tune things up. Anyhow, since then we have added a few dozen suns
to our NFS. It would be great if we could use the Pyramid as the noteserver
and compile a sun binary to just read and write notes. (This would eliminate
the need to rlogin to the Pyramid).

I started looking into this and immediately ran into the fact that the Pyramid
pads its structs differently than the sun (on longword bounds). Things like
when_f and thus resp_f have different sizes on the two machines. A gut 
reaction would be to pad the suns structs to allign with the Pyramid's.
I thought I would post before I waste lots of time.

Has anyone else done this or know a better solution? Thanks in advance.

Shep Siegel
Datacube Inc.  DSP Products Group  4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma. 01960
UUCP: shep@datacube.COM
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