Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!newton!lgy From: lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G. Yaffe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: /etc/netgroup syntax? Summary: Line continuation? Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 20:38:58 GMT Distribution: na Lines: 12 The man page describing the syntax of the /etc/netgroup file is less than precise. Is there any standard way to break long entries across multiple lines? Experimentation (with RISCos 4.52) suggests that \ is ignored when a netgroup is used by exportfs (i.e., a netgroup name appears in /etc/exports), but this does not seem to be true when netgroups are used (with NIS) in the password file (i.e., +@group entries). -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurence G. Yaffe Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu University of Washington Bitnet: yaffe@uwaphast.bitnet