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- From: Dave@usppc.abb.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Remote Procedure Call samples
- Message-ID: <9211111323.AA19119@usppc.abb.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 13:23:38 GMT
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- A posting asked for sample RPC programs. I have done a little
- RPC programming. The first was written using just the Sun
- manuals which came with SunOS documentation. For the second,
- we used a number of ideas from an O'Reilly Nutshell Book.
- The originator is not reachable from NEARnet (Internet in
- New England, USA) so I've posted this in hopes it may be of
- wider interest also.
-
- Try the O'Reilly book "Power Programming with RPC". This is an
- excellent tutorial textbook which developes several small
- applications. It shows use of RPC's using RPCGEN to build the skeleton
- and advanced tricks possible when using hand coded lower-level calls.
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- We have developed a couple of RPC applications from dusty old FORTRAN
- program internals. We did the first one using just what was in the Sun
- manuals (Network Interfaces Programmer's Guide Ch 3 RPC Language).
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- The O'Reilly book explains the differences between the several flavors
- of RPC's. I get the feeling that you are VAXen bound. DIGITAL, in the
- NAS-250 product, provides ONC remote proceedure calls. These are also
- described in the O'Reilly book although the examples are Sun. The OSF
- and UI camps have agreed to make their RPC's work together. Each is
- adopting the good things in the other. OSF is abandoning "reader makes
- it right" data representation for UI's canonic representation "XDR --
- external data representation". I have a feeling that this will be delayed
- by DEC's need to roll out Alpha. DIGITAL has got so much announced and
- so much going on that I have no feel for which part numbers you will need.
-
- Good Luck,
- Dave Hamby
- ABB Power Plant Controls Dave.Hamby@Usppc.Abb.Com
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