gra@mrmarx.UUCP (Gary Adams) (09/23/87)
I just started to build my first class derived from the basic streambuf ("stream.h") that would provide the XDR (NFS data exchange) protocol functions in a stream oriented fashion. It looks fairly straight forward to do, so I thought I would check with the net to see if it has already been done before . Any hidden gotchas to avoid ? There are a few things that appear to be "text" file restrictive in the istream and ostream classes that make it necessary to build on the streambuf definition directly. Ultimately I would like to be able to construct a variety of "record streams" that are both machine and transport independent that could be used for server-client communication (e.g. X like) over ethernet, decnet, message queues, LU 6.2, etc. Thanks in Advance. -- Gary R. Adams {masscomp,alliant}!mrmarx!gra Decision Software Company 51 Spinelli Place - ski the trees ! - 8:-<>> - Cambridge, MA 02138 "They'll be no tribble at all."