Chapter 1, Introduction to ONC+ Technologies, gives a high-level introduction to the ONC+ distributed computing platform and services.
Chapter 2, Introduction to TI-RPC, introduces TI-RPC.
Chapter 3, rpcgen Programming Guide , describes how the rpcgen tool generates client and server stubs.
Chapter 4, The Programmer's Interface to RPC, describes the use of RPC in the programming environment.
Chapter 5, NIS+ Programming Guide, describes the NIS + applications programming interface.
Appendix A, XDR Technical Note, describes XDR and how it is used in data formatting and type conversion.
Appendix B, RPC Protocol and Language Specification, describes the protocol of RPC usage, both syntax and limitations.
Appendix C, XDR Protocol Specification, describes the XDR protocol and language.
Appendix D, Live RPC Code Examples, contains complete functional listings of some of the code included in the document as examples.
Appendix E, The portmap Utility, describes the portmap utility and its function. This appendix is included in this document to aid migrating applications written to run on earlier releases of SunOS.
Appendix F, Writing a Port Monitor With the Service Access Facility (SAF), describes the process of writing a port monitor application under the SAF and is included as a reference for applications development.