Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!longway!std-unix From: ahby@bungia.bungia.mn.org (Shane P. McCarron) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: Standards Update, Part 5: IEEE 1003.2 Message-ID: <283@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 14 Dec 88 07:08:03 GMT References: <280@longway.TIC.COM> Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: Shane P. McCarron Lines: 17 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) From: Shane P. McCarron > From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) > > Eek! I thought the original 1003.2 intent was to permit implementation > in a monocase command-line environment. Has that been discarded? I have been in the .2 group since their first real meeting, and that was never discussed as an option. If we are codifying existing practice, then this clearly cannot be achieved. While requiring a single grep is not "codifying existing practice", it does permit existing practice, while still giving a view to the future. -- Shane P. McCarron UUCP: ahby@bungia.mn.org Systems Analyst ATT: +1 612 224-9239 Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 51