NFS/YP alternative

[chris at mimsy.UUCP]

In article <580 at n8emr.UUCP> lwv at 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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