VMS Help TCPIP Services, Programming Interfaces, RPC XDR Routines, xdrrec_skiprecord, Description  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    This routine ensures that the stream is properly aligned in
    preparation for a subsequent read. It is recommended that when
    a record stream is being used, this routine is called prior to
    any operations that would read from the stream.

    This routine is similar to the xdrrec_eof routine, except that
    this routine does not verify if there is more data in the buffer.