
This is the source distribution of the GREAT networking server
netfd. It is preconfigured for the following operating systems:

Linux, System V R 4.x, SunOs, Aix and HPUX

Edit the Makefile, compile the sources and install them.

The GREATcomm Package

The underlying thought of DCE (Distributed Computer Environment) is the
ability to access network ressources in a unique and transparent way.
There should be no need for the user of application software to know
where an edited file physically resides.

GREATcomm has been developed this way. All it requires is a server on
each system that has to be accessible by others (netfd).
The basic Unix i/o routines open(2), close(2), stat(2) and others have
been replaced by its counterparts net_open, net_close, etc which accept the
same arguments as the original functions. 
In order to access files on remote systems, the system's name has to be
prepended to the filename:

	host::filename


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