buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) (03/13/90)
I am starting some work with the Portable Streams Environment from Mentat, and was reading the release notes for Interactive Systems' reference port to 386/ix. It contained the following information: -------- There are several papers available from AT&T which describe the TPI, LLI and DLPI interfaces. These documents are under copyright protection of AT&T but are distributed by them directly upon request. The following is a list of these papers: 1) "A STREAMS-based Data Link Provider Interface - Version 1.2," authored by R.J. Lewis, J.K. Fellin, and D.J. Olander. This is the definition of DLPI, which is a superset of the LLI definition. 2) "Logical Link Interface: A Proposed Service Interface - Issue 1," authored by G.J. McGrath, T.L. Hytry, and J.H. Singh. This is the definition of LLI. 3) "The UNIX Transport Specification - Issue 2," authored by G.J. McGrath and D.J. Olander. This is everything you ever want to know about TLI, TPI, and more. In particular, Appendix 2 of this document is the definition of TPI. ------- Interactive PSE tech support is looking into where to call to obtain these papers, but I was interested in knowing independently of ISC. Does anyone know where to obtain these documents? And does AT&T have a list of available technical papers such as the above? BTW, I tried to order the SVR4 networking manuals today, but Prentice Hall told me they were not yet available. But I know I saw the books for sale at Usenix and Uniform in January. Were those pre-release copies, or are these manuals available for sale anywhere now? Thanks alot! -- A. Lester Buck buck@siswat.lonestar.org ...!texbell!moray!siswat!buck