PICKLT The PICKLT program demonstrates data type serialization. The program demonstrates a fixed buffer style pickling and an incremental style pickling depending on the switches being used. The implicit_handle primitive is used as the pickling handle. With default switches, the program encodes data to a file. To decode data from the file, use -d switch. FILES ===== The directory samples\rpc\pickle\picklt contains the following files for building the distributed application PICKLT: File Description README.TXT Readme file for the PICKLT sample PICKLT.IDL Interface definition language file PICKLT.ACF Attribute configuration file PICKLTC.C Client application for type pickling MAKEFILE Nmake file to build for Windows ------------------------------------------------------------ BUILDING THE CLIENT ------------------------------------------------------------ The following environment variables should already be set for you: set CPU=i386 set INCLUDE=%SDKROOT%\h set LIB=%SDKROOT%\lib set PATH=%SDKROOT%\system32;%SDKROOT%\bin where %SDKROOT% is the root directory for the 32-bit Windows SDK. For mips, set CPU=mips For alpha, set CPU=alpha Build the sample distributed application: nmake cleanall nmake This builds the executable programs pickltc.exe. There is no server side in this sample as the notion of server does not apply to pickling. ----------------------- RUNNING THE APPLICATION ----------------------- The default setting for this application is to encode data to pickle.dat file. Enter: pickltc To decode data that has been encoded, enter: pickltc -d Several other command line switches are available to change settings for this program. For a listing of the switches available from the client program, enter: pickltc -?