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From: jimp@cognos.uucp (Jim Patterson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C binding interfaces for TCP/IP
Message-ID: <2168@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 88 17:02:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.2168
Posted: Tue Jan 26 12:02:54 1988
References: <25@vdelta.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimp@cognos.UUCP (Jim Patterson)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <25@vdelta.UUCP> dave@vdelta.UUCP (Dave Arnold) writes:
>Are there efforts underway to standardize a C language interface for TCP/IP?

Sun has developed a definition called RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
which is becoming a defacto standard in some environments. RPC is
designed to support the function-call paradigm across TCP/IP
networks.  Sun has published the protocol to encourage its
implementation on other systems. In conjunction with RPC, Sun has
an excellent protocol called XDR (eXternal Data Representation)
to deal with data conversions between different machine
architectures in a flexible but structured manner.

While I've studied these protocols a bit, I don't have any direct
experience with them. I also don't know if anyone has implemented
them on VAX/VMS systems (but I suspect that this has been done).
You might contact Sun Microsystems to get more information about
RPC and XDR.
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