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AIX Version 4.3 Communications Programming Concepts

Chapter 4. eXternal Data Representation

The eXternal Data Representation (XDR) is a standard for the description and encoding of data. XDR uses a language to describe data formats, but the language is used only for describing data and is not a programming language. Protocols such as Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and the Network File System (NFS) use XDR to describe their data formats.

This chapter discusses the following topics:


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