More erlang fanning:

The protocol between the deamons:

http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_dist_protocol.html

The protocol between the individual actors:

http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_ext_dist.html

You want to look at 8.21 and 8.22.  It seems the code doesn't ship, since 
logically the function can't really be constructed at runtime. Instead, it's 
a reference into the BEAM file (where a BEAM is like a java jar).

Because of course "external term format" is exactly what anyone would google 
for to find that.  I'm also rather amused that altho Erlang has wonderfully 
powerful expressions for parsing byte streams, they used ASCII art with 
ambiguous textual descriptions to describe the format of the stuff on the 
wire instead of giving you the Erlang expression that would parse it 
unambiguously.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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