Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!dual!mordor!ut-sally!jsq From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: mod.std.unix Subject: Access to IEEE P1003 proposed draft standard Message-ID: <2921@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 17:37:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2921 Posted: Wed Sep 18 17:37:16 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 19:29:50 EDT References: <2920@ut-sally.UUCP> Reply-To: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 55 Approved: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP Draft 4 of the proposed draft standard of the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System Environment committee is available by anonymous ftp from sally.UTEXAS.EDU as ~ftp/pub/P1003.D4.Z, which is a compressed tar file. If you have a UUCP connection to decvax, you can probably get it from them if you drop a note to decvax!jmcg. If you have a UUCP connection to ut-sally, drop me a line and we'll negotiate about getting it from sally. Neither decvax nor ut-sally can accept new UUCP connections solely for this purpose. We're still looking for some UUCP host with very high connectivity to make it generally available on the UUCP network. Volunteers? In agreeing to make the draft available by these methods, IEEE requires that it *only* be available from a limited set of hosts. That set is currently sally.UTEXAS.EDU (aka ut-sally) and decvax. If you get it from anywhere else, even if the bits compare, it's not the real thing. Please do *not* make any copies publicly available for UUCP or ftp transfer without letting me know. Note that the document is not a standard. It is not even a trial use standard. It is a proposed draft standard. The following text appears on the title page: Portable Operating System Environment P1003/D4 September, 1985 All rights reserved by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. This is an unapproved draft and is subject to change. Do not specify or claim conformance to this document. In the above comments about access to and status of the draft, I am representing the opinion of the committee and IEEE, as I understand it. This particular draft is the one which was current at the *beginning* of the committee meeting last week near Washington D.C. The next draft should be available in about three weeks. Meanwhile, you should know about a few things which were changed after this draft. Most of the C library functions are now not in the P1003 standard, rather the P1003 standard refers to the X3J11 C standard for them. Similarly for most C type definitions and some system calls. Getlogname and ustat are gone. Termio is now in an appendix. I will post more details in following articles. Volume-Number: Volume 2, Number 2 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com