Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Setting netmask
Message-ID: <538@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 19:51:28 GMT
References: <17644@adm.BRL.MIL> <272@istsists.ca>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>It seems the yellow pages stashes a copy of the netmask in some obscure
>and/or undocumented fashion.

Obscure, perhaps, but at least if you're running SunOS 4.0, not
undocumented; see NETMASKS(5).  I don't know whether, if earlier
releases had the "netmasks.byaddr" map, they had that man page or not.