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Re: Is Hesiod dead?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Wohletz)
Mon Jan 11 15:26:44 1993

To: Manavendra Thakur <Manavendra_Thakur@next.com>
Cc: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@metropolis.super.org>,
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:36:12 GMT."
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:13:30 -0800
From: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.cs.unlv.edu>

>Well, on NeXT machines, there is a package called NetInfo available.   
>It is (speaking as a biased observer who has used both systems!) more  
>powerful and flexible than NIS, but on the down side it is easier to  
>screw up with NetInfo than it is with NIS.  NetInfo has been made  
>available as a separate commercial source code product by NeXT, and  
>third parties have ported the software to sparcs, Auspex, DG, and maybe  
>a few other platforms.

Good grief!  Don't even get me started about netinfo...

					--Greg

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