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From: marco@hpuamsa.UUCP (Marco Lesmeister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: UNIX C compilers and ANSI C
Message-ID: <7810007@hpuamsa.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 10:11:19 GMT
References: <356@ists.ists.ca>
Organization: HP NL
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In article <356@ists.ists.ca> mathieu@ists.ists.ca (Pierre Mathieu) writes:
>According to a conversation with our tech support people a couple of
>days ago (we're interested in ANSI conformance too), function prototyping
>(and several other funky bits of ANSI C) is expected in HP-UX
>release level 7.0, tentatively due this autumn (this applies to both 300
>and 800 series; yes, I know that the current 800 series release is
>2.1 -- trust me).  Maybe some HP persons with their noses closer to
>the grindstone can confirm or correct this.

After release 2.1 for the 800, we are going to get 3.0 and probably a 3.5 or so,
and after that we switch to release 7.0, so that the releases on the 300 and
800 systems have the same numbers. Also a lot of functionality of the 300 and
800 will be the same then (not everything, but a lot).

>Frank Wales, Systems Manager,        [frank@zen.co.uk<->mcvax!zen.co.uk!frank]
>Zengrange Ltd., Greenfield Rd., Leeds, ENGLAND, LS9 8DB. (+44) 532 489048 x217 
>----------

Regards,

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