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is a server that converts
It must be running in order to make
server is started, it will tell
what port number it is listening to, and what
program numbers it is prepared to serve.
When a client wishes to make an
call to a given program number,
on the server machine to determine
must be started before any
forks and dissociates itself from the terminal
from running as a daemon,
and causes errors and debugging information
to be printed to the standard error output.
crashes, all servers must be restarted.