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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

   Transport Independent RPC Now Freely Available Via The Internet
   
SunFLASH Vol 28 #4					          April 1991 
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TI-RPC source is on titan.rice.edu. It is in the /incoming directory: 
file: tirpcsrc.tar.Z.  Size is about 1.1 Mb. -johnj
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Sun has posted the latest version of its Remote Procedure Call
technology to internet archives.  Any software developer or systems
vendor may make use of the RPC libraries or port the code to other
systems without incurring license fees or royalty charges.

The new RPC, known as Transport-Independent RPC, or TI RPC, is
compatible with the existing ONC RPC but permits applications to be
insulated from the underlying network transports.  This means that, for
example, applications written for TCP/IP networks will run unmodified
over OSI-based networks, thereby greatly easing the migration from
today's standards to emerging OSI standards.

The version posted to the net will run on SunOS 4.1 and should also
compile without major modification on any System V platform which
supports the Transport Layer Interface (TLI). TI-RPC is already shipped
as part of UNIX System V Release 4--however, the version Sun has posted
to the internet includes an asynchronous RPC feature, currently not
present in the SVR4 version.

To run on non-SVR4 systems, TI RPC requires a TLI or X/Open Transport
Interface (XTI) interface.  These are not provided by Sun although Sun
has included with the source a patch needed to run TI-RPC on SunOS
4.1.

The TI RPC source code, which includes full documentation and sample
programs, as well as an enhanced rpcgen code generator, can be
downloaded from titan.rice.edu in the incoming directory.  It has been
posted as a compressed tar file, tirpcsrc.tar.Z.  This code is
provided by Sun as is with no support or warranties of any kind. 

Sun will also provide TI-RPC on tape for the cost of media and
shipping.  Send a check or money order for $100, made out to Sun
Microsytems, to:  
	Dennis Freeman,
	Sun Microsystems,
	2550 Garcia Ave.,
	Mailstop PAL1-416,
	Mountain View, CA 94043.

( from titan.rice.edu, in the /incoming directory:
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 ftp       1101355 Mar 29 00:36 tirpcsrc.tar.Z)

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