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From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
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Subject: Re: nis (yp) interface to assoc arrays
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Date: 3 Feb 91 23:24:05 GMT
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In article <1991Feb03.210317.16015@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>In article <FH$&M++@rpi.edu> rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
>:The dbm interface to $foo{} arrays is really handy.   Has anyone implemented
>:a similar thing that can talk to the nis?
>
>Seriously, I'm not sure what this gains you (that would make it worth
>doing, that is) that the gethostbyfoo calls don't.  If domainname is
>set, your C RTS should summon the daemons as needed.

sure, but the host table was just an example map.  I have a map called
'depot.sun4-os4' that would be nice to access from any machine.

-- 
Rodney