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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: NFS/YP alternative
Message-ID: <12266@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 88 08:07:10 GMT
References: <580@n8emr.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <580@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>... First, can anyone explain why Yellow Pages requires
>the files served to be in a DBM format?

YP is a distributed database.  (I have no idea whether Sun admits it,
but that it is, if a limited one.)  Before you can have a distributed
database, you have to have a database.  DBM format was there.  (Using
it, especially unmodified, was probably a bad idea, but that is a
different diatribe :-) .)
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