From:	"Carlo Milanesi" <carlo DOT milanesi DOT NO DOT SPAM AT libero DOT it>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	RPC under MS-DOS
Date:	Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:23:35 +0100
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Hello,
    I have a distributed application that uses Remote Procedure Call over
TCP/IP, with a Windows NT/2000/XP server and Windows 95/98/ME client. Both
sides are written in Microsoft Visual C++.
    The client side is an industrial-control hard-real time application; it
disables interrupts while controlling machine movements, and it uses up to
64 MB of RAM in linear addressing.
    The server side is a GUI Windows application; it uses MFC.
    Now I must port the client side to MS-DOS.
    My documentation says that I must install a "RPC SDK for MS-DOS and
Windows 3 from source diskettes, but I can't find such a thing, neither from
Microsoft nor from Borland.
    It seems MS-DOS is no more supported by the major compiler vendors.
    I would like to know:
    1) DJGPP supports RPC over TCP/IP or over NETBIOS pipes?
    2) Is it feasible to port the client side of muy application for DJGPP
without keeping the server side for Visual C++?
    Thanks a lot

        Carlo Milanesi
        http://digilander.libero.it/carlmila/index.html

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