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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: Re: help with rpc
- Date: 2 Sep 1992 20:28:54 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1992Sep2.150036.8215@homebase.vistachrome.com>
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- In article <1992Sep2.150036.8215@homebase.vistachrome.com> mark@homebase.vistachrome.com (Mark Alexander) writes:
- >If I were to write a program using RPCs, could I write a
- >client program that would cooperate with an ftp server
- >process on a remote machine?
-
- No. The FTP protocol is not built on RPC. RPC clients talk to RPC
- servers. More specifically, they can only communicate if they're using the
- same RPC protocol (e.g. Sun's ONC RPC or OSF's DCE -- I hope I'm getting
- all the alphabet soup right), unless someone has developed an RPC-level
- gateway. (Actually, I think I've read that Sun is working on a
- higher-level interface that hides the particular RPC protocol, so the same
- application can use both ONC and DCE).
- --
- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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