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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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Subject: Re: Problems with YP/NIS
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Date: 18 Oct 90 22:51:50 GMT
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In article <4958@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) writes:
>I have problems with setting up YP. We have a CDC4330 (RC3230 Magnum)
>with EP/IX 1.2.1  (based on RISCOS 4.50). NIS (formerly YP) refuses to work
>correctly....
>Are there any suggestions? 
>Is this a bug in RISCOS4.50 or is it a EP/IX bug? Are there any other
>EP/IX users with YP/NIS out there?

I don't presume to answer for CDC; you should check into their support 
organization.  But I am reasonably certain that, while EP/IX 1.2.1 is less
broken in an NIS sense than RISC/os 4.50, it is still more broken than
4.51, and the behaviors you report sound consistent with this brokenness.
They are about to cut in a new release, I believe; check with them for 
details.
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