From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 23 07:38:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA03527 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 07:38:42 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA03521 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 07:38:39 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA21863; Sun, 23 Jul 95 08:38:15 -0600 Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA05216; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 08:41:51 -0600 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 08:41:51 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9507231441.AA05216@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: rpt@miles.sso.loral.com Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Toren on Sun, 23 Jul 1995 08:43:54 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: missing xdr routines ?? Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Toren writes: Richard> I have no experience in VMS, AIX, or SGI. Isn't XDR a Sun Richard> protocol that wasn't picked up in the standards battles Richard> of the past few years. I'm pretty sure it was picked up; NFS is generally available on many UNIX systems; NFS requires RPC; and RPC requires XDR. Richard> Is there an RFC that covers this? See RFC1790 and RFC1014. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA Unix for brains: Wow - you can think of lots of things all at once until your brain runs out of sockets. You can only talk though with people who have brains made by the same vendor. Unfortunately you also never make any sense and have to read manuals to learn how to think. Predominantly a random thinker.