Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!jbc From: ahby@bungia.Bungia.MN.ORG (Shane P. McCarron) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: Report on ISO POSIX meeting of October 1990 Message-ID: <14892@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 20 Nov 90 15:32:57 GMT References: <14687@cs.utexas.edu> <14723@cs.utexas.edu> <14858@cs.utexas.edu> Sender: jbc@cs.utexas.edu Organization: Bugoslavian Embassy, St. Paul, MN Lines: 117 Approved: jbc@cs.utexas.edu (Guest Moderator, J.B.Chambers) X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Submitted-by: ahby@bungia.Bungia.MN.ORG (Shane P. McCarron) In article <14858@cs.utexas.edu> domo@tsa.co.uk writes: >Submitted-by: domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) > >In article <14723@cs.utexas.edu> fkittred@spca.bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge) >writes: >> How can I get copies of draft versions of the POSIX 1003.x standards? >> I am particularly interested in the 1003.4[ab] draft. I am a member >> of the IEEE. > >The contact for IEEE TCOS mailings is > > Charles Habermann Actually, the contact for obtaining drafts is Lisa Granoien at the IEEE Computer Society (+1 202-371-0101). NAPS does not distribute draft standards piecemeal >Subscribers do not have to be IEEE members. Overseas subscribers must >pay an additional $400 for express delivery independent of how many or >few units that they pay for. (This has always struck me as a rather >strange approach -- why not just bump up the cost of each unit if >express delivery is required?) Actually, the exact cost of overseas express delivery is debited from each subscribers "account" as materials are shipped. The $400 is a ballpark figure that IEEE uses. Here is the subscription form, in case anyone needs it. It is current: IEEE TCOS-Standards Document Distribution Service 6-20-90 INVOICE and Fee Schedule Name: ________________________________ Date: _______________________ Address:________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Phone: ________________________ E-Mail: ________________________ Master Card/Visa/AmEx #: _______________________ Expiration: _________ (circle one) Signature: ________________________________________________________ Instructions: Select the working groups from which you would like to receive information. Next select the number of pages of material you would like to pay for at this time. Group All Drafts Materials Only Status (notices, status reports, document lists) ____ n/a ALL (You will receive materials for new groups ____ ____ automatically as they are created) 1003.0 POSIX Guide ____ ____ 1003.1 System Interface ____ ____ 1003.2 Shell & Utilities ____ ____ 1003.3 Test Methods ____ ____ 1003.4 Real Time ____ ____ 1003.5 Ada Bindings ____ ____ 1003.6 POSIX Security ____ ____ 1003.7 System Admin. ____ ____ 1003.8 Transparent File Access ____ ____ 1003.9 Fortran Bindings ____ ____ 1003.10 Supercomputing ____ ____ 1003.11 Transaction Processing ____ ____ 1003.12 Protocol Independent Interfaces ____ ____ 1003.ns Name Space/Directory Services ____ ____ 1003.13 Real Time (assigned to .4) ____ ____ 1003.14 Multiprocessing AEP ____ ____ 1003.15 Batch Services (assigned to .10) ____ ____ 1201.1 Windowing Toolkit API ____ ____ 1201.2 User Interface Driveability ____ ____ 1224 X.400 Gateway API ____ ____ 1237 RPC ____ ____ 1238 Common OSI API & FTAM API ____ ____ Number of 500 pages units you wish to pay for: ____ x US$40 _______ (an average mailing of all materials is over 2000 pages) International Express Mail fee: ____ US$400 _______ (regular delivery can take up to 8 weeks) Annual TCOS-Stds meeting attendance fees may be prepaid: ____ US$400 _______ (or may be paid quarterly at the meetings) Total amount due for above services: _______ Receipt Requested? Yes No Payment: BE CERTAIN TO INCLUDE THIS FORM WITH YOUR PAYMENT. Payment may be made by charge card (above), or by check or money order payable to IEEE 1003. Please retain a copy of this form for your records. Send the materials to: For Subscriptions Send to: For inquiries about your current subscription: TCOS Standards Subscriptions Charles Habermann c/o Lisa Granoien NAPS International IEEE Computer Society 117 Mackubin St. Suite 6 1730 Massachusetts Ave. NW St. Paul, MN 55102 Washington DC 20036-1903 +1 (612) 224-9239 202-371-0101 +1 (612) 222-2924 (fax) cjh@bungia.mn.org uunet!bungia.mn.org!cjh -- Shane P. McCarron Phone: +1 612-224-9239 Project Manager Internet: ahby@bungia.mn.org Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 28