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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DCE on FreeBSD
Date: 11 Dec 1995 19:53:44 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Julian Elischer
(julian@mailhub.tfs.com) had the courage to say:

: In article <4adp7i$p0m@agate.berkeley.edu>,
: Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
: :In article <DJCA0F.B8q@fourthgen.fourthgen.com>,
: :Tom Greenwalt <tomg@fourthgen.fourthgen.com> wrote:
: :>Has DCE been ported to FreeBSD?  I see the generic RPC stuff, but
: :>no idl compiler.
: :
: :Where can one obtain freely available versions of DCE?

: Well here is how to find it:

: Forwarded message:

: : In regards to where to get the DCE RPC runtime (not all of DCE)
: : is available from:
: : 
: : via FTP: ftp.dec.com: /pub/DEC/DCE/PD-DCE-RPC.tar.Z

Note: ftp.dec.com got me a connection refused error while gatekeeper.dec.com
worked. Go figure.

At any rate, I took a look at this beastie and it seems to require
pthreads, so it'll have to wait. Foo.

-Bill

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