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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: NDBM copyrighted?
Date: 21 Oct 1995 01:10:09 GMT
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In article <465vfh$f7l@news.service.uci.edu>,
Dan Stromberg <strombrg@bingy.acs.uci.edu> wrote:

>To be clear, I should point out that the "db" library does not appear
>to read ndbm databases.  This is a requirement - or I'll have to find
>another way to do the project.
>
>The idea was to modify NDBM to allow building both big and little
>endian NIS maps - so an NIS master could build both, and NIS slaves
>could NFS mount the maps.

Why not check out the free YP server implementation currently being
developed for NetBSD:

	ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/OS/NetBSD/ypserv/

That implementation uses the new Berkeley DB routines.  It's still in
development, but it's worth noting that I've been using with a great deal
of success the May-ish snapshot under NetBSD/hp300 for quite some time.

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