From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 15 13:43:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA15420 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:43:47 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA15412 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:43:41 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA10816; Mon, 15 May 95 14:35:03 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505152035.AA10816@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: RPC: DOS<->FreeBSD To: tucker@meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com Date: Mon, 15 May 95 14:35:03 MDT Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505151456.AA07715@duke.meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com> from "tucker@meadow.mdso.vf.ge.com" at May 15, 95 10:56:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Does anyone know of (preferably free) packages for DOS that support RPC?? > Also, has anyone used a commercial Database package on FreeBSD? Any > recommendations?? If you put in the socket hack from Linux (which is under GPL, so you will have to become a CD manufacturer or not give away the changes) for IBCS2, Sybase runs. I don't know if everything about it runs perfectly; I do know that it runs well enough to maintain a mirror of the HGP data (which is what I set it up for). > I'd like to set up a net with FreeBSD as a server providing database > transactions for clients running MSWindoze. I assume that I can get > this going with a little RPC programming, but any other approaches > would be greatly appreciated. You will definitely need to port/write a /dev/socket for this. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.