This software was developed for an article on writing your own NIS servers (Sun/Expert magazine.) It implements a simple server I call the "Yeats Poetry" server, or yp server for short. The server uses two NIS maps, one to return poems based on title and the other by first line. The NIS maps are created by the two shell scripts in this directory, bytitle and byfirst respectively. The sample query program (yeats.c) also implements searching for all poems which contain a text pattern (uses regular expressions.) -Barry Shein