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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!mikes From: mikes@bioch.ox.ac.uk (Mike Smith) Subject: Re: amd and YP Message-ID: <1994Jan24.155018.22403@nmra.bioch.ox.ac.uk> Originator: mikes@nmra.ocms Organization: Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford References: <1994Jan21.091651.7150@nmra.bioch.ox.ac.uk> <2hr3hd$qii@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 15:50:18 GMT Lines: 26 In article <2hr3hd$qii@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>, douzzer@PIRANHA.LCS.MIT.EDU (Daniel G. Pouzzner) writes: |> just for jollies i'm posting using vi... i have no idea what this |> will look like when i actually post it.. |> |> anyway, i don't think you need to have the terminal slashes. well |> more to the point i think that's what's messing it up. it makes |> ypserv think all the entries in the database are on the same line, |> which they aren't or shouldn't be. |> |> gosh, vi is really waful. awful, that is. i don't even want to try |> to edit this - that - dammit! line.. and to think people used |> editors like this exclusively once upon a miserable time. |> |> -- |> -daniel (douzzer@athena.mit.edu) i've been here and i've been there and |> key 0B 99 0D 4F E8 55 9A 95 i've been inbetween. i talk to the wind, |> print 43 C1 7F B5 DF 8F E3 33 my words are all carried away. |> key: finger douzzer@ai.mit.edu the wind cannot hear. Thanks - I tried this, but amd seems to insist on a \ separating lines for the same host. Without it, the second line becomes invalid. Any more suggestions, anybody? Mike (I don't like vi either!)