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From: tdemott@informix.com (Tom Demott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: problem with ppp-2.1.2 interfaces & routes,
Date: 30 Sep 1994 21:42:29 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
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Summary: Origins of Yellow Pages

I'm writing a chapter in a manual that has to do with
client/server connectivity. I have some doubt whether
I can use the term Yellow Pages and expect readers to
know what I'm referring to.

Is the term Yellow Pages or NIS, specific to BSD UNIX?

I imagine that system 5 has a set of services similar
to the yellow pages of BSD UNIX. What is the name of
the system 5 service?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this,
Tom DeMott