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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7441 ; Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:44:49 EST Xref: sserve comp.org.sug:624 comp.org.usenix:3165 comp.unix.wizards:28302 comp.unix.bsd:10265 Newsgroups: comp.org.sug,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.bsd,news.sys-admin Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!sixter.var.dec.com!franzoni 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> Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News) Reply-To: franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation References: <C15sst.JqA@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:23:32 GMT Lines: 37 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Mauro Franzoni | franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com | blue like a blues ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Standard disclaimers apply: the above note is my own personal opinion, and not necessarily the opinion of my past, present or future employer. ======================================================================== =========