ONC RPC Sources
Lupo LeBoucher
I've been reading the book "Power Programming with RPC" (O'Reilly, c'est
evident) & trying to learn something about RPC. According to this book and
other sources, Sun's source code for RPC has been public domain since
1985. While I am able to find bits and pieces of it, and parts of newer
implementations of RPC, I have been unable to find the original source
code anywhere. I have done numerous web-searches, and come up with
lots of irrelevant gorp.
Could someone point me to an archive with these sources? I would find it
interesting to see how things were done in the "old days," as well as
looking at the whole suite in one package.
For that matter, if someone can point me towards a complete distribution
of RPC code; old or new (secure RPC is also an interest), I would be
grateful.
thanks in advance;
-Lupo
J. Richard Sladkey
Using http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ftpsearch/:
FTP search results
This server is located in Trondheim, Norway.
"Case insensitive substring search" for "sunrpc4"
1 -rwxr--r-- 846.3K 1992 Jul 19 ftp.maths.su.oz.au /mirror/ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl:pub:apollo/tcp/sunrpc4.0.zip
2 -rw-r--r-- 846.3K 1996 Jul 4 ftp.dst.unipi.it /pub/unix/apollo/sunrpc4.0.zip
3 -r--r--r-- 530.7K 1991 Mar 14 ftp.interworks.org /pub/comp.domain/sunrpc4.0_tar.Z
4 -rw-rw-r-- 547.7K 1993 Nov 30 ftp.cse.psu.edu /pub/src/sunrpc4.0.tar.gz
4 reported hits
1.258 seconds prospero
1.259 seconds HTTP
0 partial writes.
DONE
A similar search for sunrpc3 yield some older versions and a search
for tirpcsrc finds lots of hits for the last free Sun release.
Michael R. Eisler
ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/rpc has
netwise_tirpc_qs.tar.Z 28-Sep-95 00:00 1.8M
rpcsrc_40.tar.Z 22-Mar-94 00:00 423K
rpcsrc_doc.ps.Z 23-Jun-95 00:00 222K
tirpcsrc1.0.tar.Z 22-Mar-94 00:00 1.1M
tirpcsrc2.0.tar.Z 22-Mar-94 00:00 1.3M
tirpcsrc2.3.tar.Z 02-Sep-94 00:00 1.4M
The "original" rpcsrc release (over 10 years old) is no longer available,
and I doubt you'd want it.
--
-Mike Eisler NFS group
m...@Eng.Sun.Com SunSoft
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In article <5b8rf7$l...@xanadu.io.com>, Lupo LeBoucher <i...@io.com> wrote:
>
>I've been reading the book "Power Programming with RPC" (O'Reilly, c'est
>evident) & trying to learn something about RPC. According to this book and
>other sources, Sun's source code for RPC has been public domain since
>1985. While I am able to find bits and pieces of it, and parts of newer
>implementations of RPC, I have been unable to find the original source
>code anywhere. I have done numerous web-searches, and come up with
>lots of irrelevant gorp.
>Could someone point me to an archive with these sources? I would find it
>interesting to see how things were done in the "old days," as well as
>looking at the whole suite in one package.
>For that matter, if someone can point me towards a complete distribution
>of RPC code; old or new (secure RPC is also an interest), I would be
>grateful.
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In article <5b8rf7$l...@xanadu.io.com>, Lupo LeBoucher <i...@io.com> wrote:
>
>While I am able to find bits and pieces of it, and parts of newer
>implementations of RPC, I have been unable to find the original source
>code anywhere. I have done numerous web-searches, and come up with
>lots of irrelevant gorp.
>Could someone point me to an archive with these sources? I would find it
>interesting to see how things were done in the "old days," as well as
>looking at the whole suite in one package.
>For that matter, if someone can point me towards a complete distribution
>of RPC code; old or new (secure RPC is also an interest), I would be
>grateful.
You can find all of the recent releases by anonymous ftp on:
playground.sun.com:/pub/rpc
rpcsrc_40.tar.Z - sockets-based RPC, based on SunOS 4.0
tirpcsrc1.0.tar.Z - TLI based RPC, based on SVR4, for SunOS 4.1
tirpcsrc2.0.tar.Z - TLI based RPC, based on Solaris 2.0
tirpcsrc2.3.tar.Z - TLI based RPC, based on Solaris 2.3
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