cutting@elsinore.uucp (Doug Cutting) (06/13/90)
Periodically there have been requests on this group for a Common Lisp implementation of SUN RPC. We have an implementation available in source form for anonymous ftp. The code was originally written by Jeff Finger while at Stanford, and has been subsequently revised at Xerox by Bill van Melle. Currently it only runs in Xerox Common Lisp, but was written with portability in mind. It has been the basis of many robust clients (including NFS) but includes little support for the implementation of network services. We hope that someone will be enticed to: (1) port the code other Common Lisp implementations; and further (2) extend the system to support implementation of servers. Both of these are significant programming efforts, requiring familiarity with both SUN RPC and the foreign function interface of the target Lisp. The first task also requires some familiarity with Interlisp-D. The copyright permits almost anything to be done with the code, so long as changes are made available to Stanford and Xerox at no charge. The code is available for anonymous FTP from arisia.xerox.com (13.1.100.206) as /pub/lisp-rpc.tar.Z. This contains: rpc.announce - this message rpc.tedit - original documentation rpc.ps - postscript version of above rpc.txt - plain text version of above rpc.lisp - top level, loads the rest of the system rpcdecls.lisp - macros, needed at compile time rpcstruct.lisp - structure & condition definitions rpcrpc.lisp - program definition & invocation rpcxdr.lisp - external data representation rpcudp.lisp - UDP transport for Xerox D-machine rpctcp.lisp - TDP transport for Xerox D-machine rpcos.lisp - UDP transport for Xerox Lisp on a Sun rpcportmapper.lisp - definition of portmap client rpcsrv.lisp - incomplete UDP RPC server, implements portmap The Lisp files were originally in Interlisp file manager format and were converted to plain text for this distribution. Doug <cutting@parc.xerox.com>