From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 13:21: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from entropy.tmok.com (entropy.tmok.com [204.17.163.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2E637B8BA for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:21:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wonko@entropy.tmok.com) Received: (from wonko@localhost) by entropy.tmok.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA92842 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:21:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Hechinger Message-Id: <200004102021.QAA92842@entropy.tmok.com> Subject: FreeBSD/C question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:21:49 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com X-Useless-Header: why? because i can. X-Organization: The Ministry of Knowledge X-Dreams: an OpenWin that is based on current MIT X11 releases X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG well, here we go. i'm writing a program that parses and edits the NIS files (although most of these files exist outside of NIS) and i was wondering if there are any data structures and parsing functions already out there and available. i need to read in master.passwd and get all the data to the right areas, etc, but since this is something that probably happens already i'd like to avoid re-inventing the wheel. any pointers? cheers, -brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message