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From: wiljo@freesid.mamnix.quest.sub.org (Wiljo Heinen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: YP for ISC 2.2?
Message-ID: <90.295.10:55:40@freesid.mamnix.quest.sub.org>
Date: 22 Oct 90 09:55:40 GMT
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asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes:


>      Has anyone taken delivery of Yellow pages for release 2.2 of ISC Unix?

We tried to.
Waited three months now. No response from ISC.

>      I filled out the little postcard that came with my OS update many moos
>      ago but no YP has shown up here yet.  Has anyone installed the older YP
>      2.0.0 on the 2.2 OS?  Is it "safe" to do this?

No. It's very unsafe. Out of desparation we tried it ... and screwed up 
one of our machines. Now we're waiting again.

Could be a fine thing, running YP not only on our SUNs. What is the idea anyway
to ship NFS and withhold YP ?? Have the customer fill out a card. And not 
deliver the product anyway.
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