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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
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Subject: X/OPEN
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 17:01:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 17:01:13 1985
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At the D.C. P1003 committee meeting, there were two documents which
were referred to more than any others which were not actually submitted
as proposals to the committee:  The System V Interface Definition
(The Purple Book), and the X/OPEN PORTABILITY GUIDE (The Green Book).
(The /usr/group Standard was constantly being referred to implicitly,
since the current P1003 drafts are derived from it, and of course the
X3J11 draft standard was of great interest.)

X/OPEN is "A Group of European Computer Manufacturers" who have produced
a document intended to promote the writing of portable facilities.
Their flyer remarks (in five languages), "Now we all speak the same
language in Europe."

The book is published by

	Elsevier Science Publishers
	Book Order Department
	PO Box 211
	1000 AE Amsterdam
	The Netherlands

or, for those in the U.S.A. or Canada:

	Elsevier Science Publishers Co Inc.
	PO Box 1663
	Grand Central Station
	New York, NY 10163

The price is Dfl 275,00 or USD 75.00.  According to the order form,
"This price includes the costs of one update which will be mailed
automatically upon publication."  They take a large number of credit
cards and other forms of payment.

Could someone please send me details on how to order the SVID so
I can post that, too?  While I realize that such announcements
may appear somewhat commercial, nonetheless the X/OPEN and SVID
documents are of sufficiently direct interest to the standards
effort to post access information for them.  (If you disagree
with this assertion, let me know.)

Volume-Number:  Volume 2, Number 10


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