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From: franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni)
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: POSIX threatens our use of lp/lpr and friends
Message-ID: <1993Jan21.092332.24612@rdg.dec.com>
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Reply-To: franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni)
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References: <C15sst.JqA@ra.nrl.navy.mil> 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:23:32 GMT
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In article <C15sst.JqA@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, Ran Atkinson
<atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil> writes:
> Subject: IMPORTANT: POSIX threatens our use of lp/lpr and friends

|>   In the past there was a clear emphasis on standardising the existing
|> practices of the UNIX community.  This lead to IEEE standard 1003.1
|> which standardised the core of the UNIX system interfaces (Section 2
|> of the UNIX manual) and IEEE standard 1003.2 which standardised
|> existing practice for the shell and command line utilities.  These
|> were both mostly good for the UNIX community because they enhanced the
|> portability of existing software and users.
At first, POSIX is *NOT* a standardization of UNIX(tm),  POSIX is a definition
of a standard
operating system.
The fact POSIX looks like U*X, is because U*X is one of the more spread and
`standard'
operating system on the market.
It's true that POSIX was born on the U*X community request for standardization,
but POSIX
is not U*X.

|>   There IS a way to prevent this.  
There IS another way: ask your U*X dialect producer/distributor *NOT* to change
anything,
*NOT* to confrom to POSIX or, at least, to keep backward (old) compatibility
....
The fact you don't like POSIX, doesn't mean that POSIX is bad.
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Mauro Franzoni			|
franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com	|                              blue like a blues
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Standard disclaimers apply: the above note is my own personal opinion, and not 
necessarily the opinion of my past, present or future employer.
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