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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: comp.sources.reviewed -> comp.sources.posix
Message-ID: <1991Mar06.084237.7566@kithrup.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 91 08:42:37 GMT
References: <1991Mar2.194702.18667@tridom.uucp> <1991Mar3.051242.5879@twinsun.com> <353@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
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In article <353@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker) writes:
>Pardon me if this is a duplicate.  I have news errors and I *think*
>I cancelled the bad one.

I've seen it three times now.

>Talk to me when it survives the test of time (i.e., its
>proponents have finished meeting, proposing, coffee drinking, and
>ArkB-ing and have actually implemented something).

First of all, the people doing POSIX are not under any geas do implement
*anything*.  Most of them are, I will admit, involved in the development of
operating systems, but some are just users who want to have a say in what
happens.

That said:  POSIX 1003.1 is out, several systems "conform" to it, it's
required for certain government bids, etc.  Some people (including,
occasionally, myself) try to make various pd and similar programs (such as
emacs, bash, etc.) use the POSIX stuff, as this will, hopefully, be more
portable as time goes by.

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Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
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