rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) (02/04/91)
In article <1991Feb03.210317.16015@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: >In article <FH$&M++@rpi.edu> rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes: >:The dbm interface to $foo{} arrays is really handy. Has anyone implemented >:a similar thing that can talk to the nis? > >Seriously, I'm not sure what this gains you (that would make it worth >doing, that is) that the gethostbyfoo calls don't. If domainname is >set, your C RTS should summon the daemons as needed. sure, but the host table was just an example map. I have a map called 'depot.sun4-os4' that would be nice to access from any machine. -- Rodney
tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (02/04/91)
From the keyboard of rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II): :>Seriously, I'm not sure what this gains you (that would make it worth :>doing, that is) that the gethostbyfoo calls don't. If domainname is :>set, your C RTS should summon the daemons as needed. : :sure, but the host table was just an example map. I have a map called :'depot.sun4-os4' that would be nice to access from any machine. Well, there *are* usersubs for the brave, but that wouldn't help you bind to %foo. Maybe the %foo bindings could use a user hook in it, too. That way people could deal with dbz and gdbm file without sacrificing their dbm access. --tom -- "Still waiting to read alt.fan.dan-bernstein using DBWM, Dan's own AI window manager, which argues with you 10 weeks before resizing your window." ### And now for the question of the month: How do you spell relief? Answer: U=brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu; echo "/From: $U/h:j'" >>~/News/KILL; expire -f $U