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From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
Date: 25 Jul 1994 21:15:18 GMT
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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In article <mrg.774688509@dynamo>, matthew green <mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>>Well Linux is Posix compliant which means it has features of
>>both SV and BSD but favors SV.
>
>to me, you're hinting that netbsd and freebsd are not posix
>compliant, which is plain wrong.

Interesting.  What POSIX standard is referred to here?

What evidence can anyone offer that Linux or any flavor
of BSD conforms to a POSIX standard?
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    Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
    (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@pangea.stanford.edu