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Aside from rhello and hello_svc, this distribution contains an ONC RPC library implementing the RPC and XDR protocols. The library is based on Sun's SRCRPC 4.0 release. The distribution also includes documentation, utilities, RPC specification files for several common services, and some simple demo services.

The directory hierarchy is as follows:

src/ Source code
src/demo/ Demo services
src/demo/dir/ Remote directory lister
src/demo/msg/ Remote console message delivery service
src/demo/sort/ Remote sort service
src/rpcgen/ RPC language compiler
src/rpcgen2/ RPC language compiler (newer, not fully NT-friendly version)
src/portmap/ RPC port mapper
src/librpc/ RPC and XDR library
src/rpcinfo/ Utility that reports RPC information
src/misc/ Misc. source files used by other components
etc/ Contains RPC services file
doc/ Documentation
rpcsvc/ Input files fpr rpcgen describing various RPC services.