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From: Christian Kuhtz <chk@psa.pencom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DCE on FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 11:22:10 -0700
Organization: Pencom Systems Administration Group
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References: <DJCA0F.B8q@fourthgen.fourthgen.com> <4adp7i$p0m@agate.berkeley.edu> <4ahjls$j6@dyson.iquest.net>
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John S. Dyson wrote:
> 
> 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?
> >
> riftp.osf.org:/pub/dce
> 
> I don't think that it is everything that people associate with it...  But
> it is there, and a porting effort.  (I don't know if idl is included.)

It is not nearly what DCE is all about. All it is is DCE RPC. No CDS, GDS, DTS, threads, 
etc...

Chris


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