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From: randall@uvaarpa.virginia.edu (Randall Atkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ansi c and directories
Message-ID: <1666@uvaarpa.virginia.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 89 22:30:27 GMT
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Reply-To: randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson)
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People looking for a standard way to access files and directories
should be looking at the standard for the C language bindings 
of the portable operating system interface for computer environments
(POSIX).  It is IEEE 1003.1-1988 and is available from the IEEE
Standards Office [ +1 (212) 371-0101 by telephone].

ANSI C specifies the C Language not full OS interfaces.  There is
a standard for the OS interfaces and POSIX is it.  The IEEE POSIX
committee and the ANSI C committee did a good job of coordinating
their efforts and the result is usable.

Questions about POSIX should be redirected to comp.std.unix and
questions about ANSI C should really be placed in comp.std.c

Can we let this die in comp.lang.c now ?? (rhetorical question)

  Ran
  randall@Virginia.EDU