nick@toro.MTS.ML.COM (Nicholas Jacobs) (07/11/90)
Does anybody know if NCR plans on releasing these products? Has anybody looked at what is involved in getting only the Remote Procedure Call and External Data Representation mechanisms working? I'm concerned about our Towers' ability to interoperate with other boxes over a TCP/IP network and this product would make life so much easier... Please email responses, I'll summarize if sufficient interest. Thanks, Nicholas Jacobs nick@toro.MTS.ML.COM, uunet!toro!nick, (212) 236-3230
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (07/12/90)
>Does anybody know if NCR plans on releasing these products?
Does NCR offer NFS? If so, I'd certainly *hope* that they'd offer RPC
and XDR as well (where "offer" doesn't mean "bury inside the guts of the
NFS code and matching utilities, it means "provide as libraries that
users can use to construct programs).
If they don't, you might want to grab the publicly-available Sun RPC/XDR
source from one of the source archives containing it
("comp.sources.unix" may have it). Some porting work would probably be
necessary.