.TH rpcstream 3I "27 March 1991" "InterViews" "InterViews Reference Manual"
.SH NAME
rpcstream \- iostreamb specialized to RPC requests
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <Dispatch/rpcstream.h>
.SH DESCRIPTION
rpcstream, irpcstream, and orpcstream specialize iostream, istream,
and ostream, respectively, to RPC requests.  That is, the
associated streambuf will be an rpcbuf.  Conversions will be formatted
(that is, ASCII) so datums will need to be separated by space
characters.
.SH CONSTRUCTORS
.TP
.B "rpcstream()"
Construct an unopened rpcstream.
.SH PUBLIC OPERATIONS
.TP
.B "void listen(int port)"
.ns
.TP
.B "void connect(const char* host, int port)"
Create a connection.  Any failure sets ios::failbit in the error
state.
.TP
.B "int accept()"
Accept a pending connection and return the new file descriptor.
.TP
.B "void attach(int fd)"
Attach to a pre-existing connection.
.TP
.B "void close()"
Break a connection.  The error state is cleared except on failure.
.TP
.B "void nonblocking(boolean)"
.ns
.TP
.B "void verbose(boolean)"
Enable or disable non-blocking I/O and/or printing of error messages.
.TP
.B "rpcbuf* rdbuf()"
Return a pointer to the rpcbuf created by the rpcstream.
.TP
.B "boolean incomplete_request()"
.ns
.TP
.B "void incomplete_request(boolean)"
Get or set a flag.  Used by the operations that insert an RpcHdr into
an rpcstream or extract an RpcHdr from an rpcstream.
.SH SEE ALSO
IOS.INTRO(3C++),
iostreamb(3I),
rpcbuf(3I)