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- From: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: XDR on Apollos?
- Message-ID: <1755@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 11:27:13 GMT
- References: <13074@ztivax.UUCP>
- Sender: news@eb.ele.tue.nl (The News system)
- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Lines: 31
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- In article <13074@ztivax.UUCP> paulisch@ztivax.UUCP (Dr. Frances Paulisch) writes:
- =>I have an application which uses the XDR routines to save data in an
- =>efficient, (supposedly) machine-independent binary format. Upon porting
- =>it to our Apollo workstations (DN3000), we noticed that the XDR include
- =>files and system calls are not available on our Apollo systems.
- =>
- =>Does anyone know whether the XDR routines are, in fact, available on
- =>Apollo? If not, does anyone know of public-domain version of the
- =>XDR-routines which we could then port ourselves?
-
- Sun make it's RPC libraries freely available in source form.
- We required it to be able to compile the PC-NFS daemons.
-
- I retrieved ours from ftp.uu.net. I'm sorry that I can't give you the
- original directory.
-
- The versions with small modifications for APOLLO are available in:
- ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl:/pub/apollo/tcp/sunrpc3.9a.tar.Z
- ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl:/pub/apollo/tcp/sunrpc4.0.zip
-
- (for the last one you can find the unzip exec in:
- ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl:/pub/local/bin/unzip
- )
-
- Willem Jan
-
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