Xref: utzoo comp.unix.misc:403 comp.unix.questions:26389 comp.bugs.sys5:1365 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!hacgate!ladcgw.ladc.bull.com!melb.bull.oz.au!sun0!sjg From: sjg@sun0.melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J. Gerraty) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: System V R 3.1,3.2,3.3, 4 ? What's the diff ? Message-ID: <1990Oct23.015640.23819@melb.bull.oz.au> Date: 23 Oct 90 01:56:40 GMT Sender: news@melb.bull.oz.au (USENET News Account) Followup-To: comp.unix.misc Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia Lines: 29 Ok, I have asked all the System V guru's I know. (Even tried AT&T :-) and have got nowhere. So perhaps the net can help. Can anybody provide a list (succinct if possible) of the major changes introduced with System V 3.1,3.2 etc. A reference to a suitable source would also be useful. Frequently we (a computer vendor) respond to tenders that call for say System V 3.3. In one case the tender asked for 3.3 only weeks after AT&T announced it. In many cases the customer simply wants the latest and greatest of whatever... In other cases they do have a need for specific features that may have been introduced with a particular release. (Ok, most clever software writers try and avoid such release dependance but...). My company sells a Unix derrived from Sys V 3.1, with enhancements such as FFS from BSD etc etc. It may well be the case that our Unix does indeed provide the feature that the customer want's - but without a list of the differences between releases we don't know. Thank you (in advance :-) -- Simon J. Gerraty #include /* imagine something *very* witty here */