OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

Topics in RPC Application Development
Figure 16-8. Decisions for Selecting a Manager
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16.7 Creating Portable Data via the IDL Encoding Services
The IDL encoding services provide client and server RPC applications with a method for
encoding data types in input parameters into byte stream format and decoding data types
in output parameters from a byte stream without invoking the RPC runtime. Encoding
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