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From: boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin)
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Subject: Re: POSIX mailing lists
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Date: 20 Feb 91 17:47:36 GMT
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In article <1673@pdxgate.UUCP>, berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) writes:
|> 
|>   Anyone on the POSIX mailing list? I was curious how much something like that
|> costs. How about just a copy of the latest POSIX draft?

A copy of any of the POSIX draft standards (or other draft standards)
is available from the Computer Society's publications office:

	IEEE Computer Society
	Publications Office
	10662 Los Vaqueros Circle
	Los Alamitos, CA   90720
	714-821-8380 (Phone)
	714-821-4010 (FAX)

To be on the POSIX mailing lists aren't cheap.  That's because they,
like most standards committees, generate an awful lot of proposals,
drafts, counter proposals, letters, etc. etc.  The way POSIX does
this is for subscribers to send a check for some dollar amount and,
each time they send a mailing, deduct the cost of the mailing
from your account.  When your account gets low, they send you mail
saying to send more money.

The cost of the mailing is directly proportional to the number of pages.
I think they recently changed the price, so I won't quote a number,
but it's something like 9 cents/page inclusive of printing, postage (US)
and packaging.

For further information you can contact:

POSIX Chair:	James D. Isaak         	603-884-3634
		Digital Equipment    	Fax: 603-884-3682
		M/S TTB1-5/G06	    	decvax!isaak
		10 Tara Blvd.
		Nashua, NH  03062-2689

POSIX Secretary:
		Shane P. McCarron	201-263-8400, EXT. 232
		UNIX International	fax: 201-263-8401
		20 Waterview Blvd.	mccarron@uiunix.ui.org
		Parsippany, NJ  07054		

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Joseph Boykin
Manager, Mach OS Development
Encore Computer Corp
Treasurer, IEEE Computer Society

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