Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!jsq From: sp@gregoire.osf.fr (Simon Patience) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: recent history of Unix evolution Message-ID: <17882@cs.utexas.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 16:55:39 GMT References: <17837@cs.utexas.edu> <17405@cs.utexas.edu> <17631@cs.utexas.edu> <17653@cs.utexas.edu> <17710@cs.utexas.edu> <17837@cs.utexas.edu> Sender: jsq@cs.utexas.edu Reply-To: sp@gregoire.osf.fr (Simon Patience) Organization: OSF Research Institute Lines: 31 Approved: jsq@cs.utexas.edu (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Submitted-by: sp@gregoire.osf.fr (Simon Patience) In article <17837@cs.utexas.edu>, Chuck.Phillips@FtCollins.NCR.COM (Chuck.Phillips) writes: > As a developer of applications that must run on both SVr4 and OSF/1 (when > it ships to end users), I've looked all over for specific information on > the C language interface to OSF/1 in general and system calls in > particular. The only books I can find on OSF are about Motif, nothing on > the operating system itself. I'd *like* to take advantage of what OSF/1 > offers, but without documentation, this is impossible. How about sections > 1-8 of the man pages for OSF/1? Where can I buy them? Telling me it will > be POSIX compliant is only a partial answer. What you want is the Operating System Programming Interfaces Volume of the AES (Application Environment Specification). This is published by Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-043522-8. You should be able to order this from any reputable bookshop if they don't already have it. It has been available for some time but I guess it has taken time for the news to leak out. These are not all the interfaces present in OSF/1 but they are the ones you should use if you want to write a portable application. Simon. Simon Patience Open Software Foundation Phone: +33-76-63-48-72 Research Institute FAX: +33-76-51-05-32 2 Avenue De Vignate Email: sp@gr.osf.org 38610 Gieres, France uunet!gr.osf.org!sp Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 124