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In article <173*eskovgaa@uvcw.UVic.ca>, Erik Skovgaard writes:

The second version has not yet formally been released but is
available only as an internal (and confidential) X/OPEN document.

Are you serious? Is it a _secret_ what they are going to virtually
"spring on the developers and the public"? Even CCITT and ISO are
willing to let you (me, anyhow) get draft standards and even minutes
from their meetings. Maybe I should try to look and learn and cease
to be amazed at how so-called "standards" are developed.

Thus, you should be careful which spec you implement.

How? Only thanx to this comparativly random comment from you, we get
to know there is a new version coming up, and all development based on
the older version has to be stopped, because we will not be able to
know what the next version will bring.

If this is indicative of X/OPEN, I say boycott X/OPEN and their
documents.

ISO is _nice_ compared to this.

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