This manual describes how to build a distributed system using the Remote Procedure Call system developed in the Online Group of the CN Division of CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN). This hypertext version was derived from version 3.0.0 of the paper version. Copyright is held by CERN, but distribution in whole or part is allowed to academic non-profit institutions provided this notice is also distributed.
For details of how the system works and for maintenance, see the RPC Internals Guide and our RTC87 paper. For information on how to run an RPC application which has already been written, skip to "Running an RPC system". Further details are in the sections on:
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