NIS+ documentation?

Hi all,
I'm curious about where to find accurate NIS+ documentation for Solaris 9? I have been reading the Solaris 9 9/04 System Administrator Collection and in the sections it talks about setting up and administering NIS+. It mentions several files that I don't have on my system? I have SUNWnisu and SUNWnisr installed. Am I missing something?
The docs don't mention anything about nisserver or nispopulate and it talks about the makefile which isn't on my system by default.
Any ideas where I can get current information about setting up and administrating NIS+ in Solaris 9?
Thanks.
Mk

The commands you refer to are probably installed in the /usr/lib/nis directory.
Note that Sun have been talking about End Of Life NIS+ in the benefits of LDAP (ugh) for quite some time, so i don't know how much longer it will survive. Quite sad really.
anyway. Good luck :)
.7/M.

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