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Compiling on the Alpha

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Tue Jun 15 10:26:58 1993

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 10:17:57 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: gshapiro@wpi.WPI.EDU
Cc: raeburn@cygnus.com, hesiod@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Gregory Neil Shapiro's message of Mon, 14 Jun 1993 19:57:45 -0400 <199306142357.TAA14544@monkeyboy.WPI.EDU>

Now I see what you're up to.  You've changed the LHS from ".ns" to "".
The code expects something to be there, and that's why you need the
extra conditional.

I can think of one reason why changing this is not a good idea: if you
ever want to get interrealm hesiod working, the realms that talk to
each other need to have the same LHS.  For instance, this gives info
in the local (athena) realm:

    gulch>hesinfo marc passwd
    marc:*:8888:101:Marc Horowitz,Marc,1 Main Street:/mit/marc:/afs/sipb/project/tcsh/betatcsh

and this gives info the the gza.com realm:

    gulch>hesinfo marc@gza.com passwd
    marc:*:8888:101:Marc Horowitz:/home/marc:/usr/local/bin/tcsh

We never figured that anyone would change it.
					-Mark

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