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.
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