Re: Problem with npasswd??

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From: Marcus Leech
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:25

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In article <1992Jul28.012207.27248@news.uiowa.edu>, dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) writes:
|> Why should that be time consuming?  Space consuming, yes?  But not time
|> consuming.  Ever hear of a binary search? ;-)
|> 
My locally-developed passwd/yppasswd replacement program does just that.
Searching a (currently 116K-word) dictionary with a binary search takes a
  small fraction of a second.

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Marcus Leech, 4Y11             Bell-Northern Research  |opinions expressed
mleech@bnr.ca                  P.O. Box 3511, Stn. C   |are my own, and not
ml@ve3mdl.ampr.org             Ottawa, ON, CAN K1Y 4H7 |necessarily BNRs

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