Re: Network number scheme/Dead list?

[Ulrich Kuehn <kuehn@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>]

Hello!
|>
|>Hey, where is everyone?  Or am I just not getting anything through the
|>list?  I haven't seen a new message in weeks!
|>
Well, I am here :))

|>I seem to remember hearing something about some sort of scheme that grew
|>out of NFS for sending words and longwords over the network in a platform-
|>independant format (ie, big-endian! :-)...  Does this ring a bell with
|>anyone?  Can you tell me the real name of the routines/whatever I'm
|>looking for?
|>
That sounds very much like XDR, which is used for Remote Procedure Call
RPC, which itself is used for NFS.

I think it was specified in RFC 1054, but you should get the RFC about
XDR, it had a number about 1014 or near it (I cant remember right now).

Hope that helps,

Ulrich