Need RPC/XDR for VAX VMS

russ at scdpyr.UUCP russ at scdpyr.UUCP
Mon Feb 16 08:11:36 AEST 1987


We have a need to run applications across a network that includes both
UN*X workstations and DEC uVAXen running VMS (with TCP/IP).  Although
we wanted to use Sun's Network File System (NFS), apparently there is
no VMS client implementation of NFS, because of incompatibilities in
file system semantics.  The underlying Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and
eXternal Data Representation (XDR) protocols appear adequate, if we
can get RPC/XDR implementations for VMS.

Has someone out there already implemented RPC/XDR under VMS who is
willing to share the results, or at least descriptions of the problems
they encountered?  I have the public domain Sun RPC/XDR source code
and am willing (as a last resort) to attempt to get it running under
VMS.  I am aware that Wollongong implemented RPC/XDR under VMS to get
their VMS NFS server running, but they would not make the RPC/XDR
libraries available separately, when I asked.  Thanks in advance!

Russ Rew
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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