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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ansi c and directories
Message-ID: <7196@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 3 Dec 89 16:34:09 GMT
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In article <1666@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> randall@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) writes:
> ANSI C specifies the C Language not full OS interfaces.  There is
> a standard for the OS interfaces and POSIX is it.

Wrong. POSIX is a standard for the UNIX OS interface. It is not implementable
on most personal computers, for example. There is a huge gap between what ANSI
specifies and what's useful on most systems, and nother huge gap between that
and POSIX.

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

And pepole really trying to bridge the gap should get into the C-FUTURES
mailing list. *AND* comp.lang.c.
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