Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!pyrltd!root44!gwc From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: posix Message-ID: <2737@root44.co.uk> Date: 11 Jun 91 13:15:39 GMT References: <1991May30.182640.3598@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Jun6.002421.1015@gumby.dsd.TRW.COM> Organization: UniSoft Ltd., London, England Lines: 13 suhre@ondine.dsd.trw.com (Maurice E. Suhre) writes: >My boss has a book "IEEE Standard Portable Operating System Interface >for Computer Environments" published by the IEEE. ISBN 1-55937-003-3. >It says POSIX in big letters on the front cover. Also is says >IEEE Std 1003.1-1988. This version of POSIX.1 is out of date. It was superseded by 1003.1-1990, which fixes several problems and clarifies many ambiguities in the original 1988 standard. The new version is also an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 9945-1). -- Geoff Clare (Dumb American mailers: ...!uunet!root.co.uk!gwc) UniSoft Limited, London, England. Tel: +44 71 729 3773 Fax: +44 71 729 3273