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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:38:00PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
>      On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:25:36PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>           John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
>=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20
>           > +    (synopsis "A server to convert RPC program numbers into =
universal addresses")
>                             ^
>           What about: ???Convert ONC??RPC program numbers to addresses????
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      I have no idea what ONC is.
>
> Oh according to Wikipedia "Open Network Computing".  Maybe then I will mo=
ve this code
> out of linux.scm and into onc-rpc.scm

Probably (=E2=80=9CONC RPC=E2=80=9D used to be known as =E2=80=9CSun RPC=E2=
=80=9D.)

By =E2=80=9Cdirectory server=E2=80=9D, I probably meant =E2=80=9Cdirectory =
service=E2=80=9D: you lookup
a name (program number), and it gives you a number (IPC address).

Ludo=E2=80=99.