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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: POSIX bashing
Message-ID: <670533623.5140@mindcraft.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 19:20:22 GMT
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In article <15645@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>(Of course, NIST went ahead and mandated [ that the POSIX.1 job control
>option be supported ] in the FIPS.  They always seem to think they
>know better than the technical committees who develop the standards.)

Customers are such an annoyance.  They're always demanding things
that the implementors don't think they should have.


	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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