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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!taronga!peter From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: time for comp.unix.bsd.386 Message-ID: <6XQIKDA@taronga.com> Organization: Taronga Park BBS References: <1992Aug27.093740.29039@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Aug27.122244.23194@prism.poly.edu> <1992Aug27.091607.12110@resonex.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:52:48 GMT Lines: 16 In article <1992Aug27.091607.12110@resonex.com> michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes: >Personally, I rather like Peter's recent suggestion of comp.os.posix.* Except that "posix" itself is problematical. For example, there are real unix-like systems that aren't posix compliant (386BSD, for example) and there are completely un-unixy POSIX environments (Open VMS). From what I can tell, most normal UNIX programs will crash and burn on Open VMS (for example, anything that expects to access files with specific names)... I think this hierarchy would be more useful if the name implied "unix like" not "posix conforming". -- `-_-' Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX +1 713 568 0480/1032