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- Draft 4 of the proposed draft standard of the IEEE P1003
- Portable Operating System Environment committee is available
- by anonymous ftp from sally.UTEXAS.EDU as ~ftp/pub/P1003.D4.Z,
- which is a compressed tar file.
-
- If you have a UUCP connection to decvax, you can probably get
- it from them if you drop a note to decvax!jmcg. If you have
- a UUCP connection to ut-sally, drop me <ut-sally!jsq> a line
- and we'll negotiate about getting it from sally. Neither
- decvax nor ut-sally can accept new UUCP connections solely
- for this purpose.
-
- We're still looking for some UUCP host with very high connectivity
- to make it generally available on the UUCP network. Volunteers?
-
- In agreeing to make the draft available by these methods,
- IEEE requires that it *only* be available from a limited set
- of hosts. That set is currently sally.UTEXAS.EDU (aka ut-sally)
- and decvax. If you get it from anywhere else, even if the
- bits compare, it's not the real thing. Please do *not*
- make any copies publicly available for UUCP or ftp transfer
- without letting me know.
-
- Note that the document is not a standard. It is not even
- a trial use standard. It is a proposed draft standard.
- The following text appears on the title page:
-
- Portable Operating System Environment
-
- P1003/D4
-
- September, 1985
-
- All rights reserved by the Institute of Electrical and
- Electronics Engineers, Inc.
-
- This is an unapproved draft and is subject to change.
-
- Do not specify or claim conformance to this document.
-
- In the above comments about access to and status of the draft,
- I am representing the opinion of the committee and IEEE,
- as I understand it.
-
- This particular draft is the one which was current at the *beginning*
- of the committee meeting last week near Washington D.C. The next
- draft should be available in about three weeks. Meanwhile, you
- should know about a few things which were changed after this draft.
- Most of the C library functions are now not in the P1003 standard,
- rather the P1003 standard refers to the X3J11 C standard for them.
- Similarly for most C type definitions and some system calls.
- Getlogname and ustat are gone. Termio is now in an appendix.
- I will post more details in following articles.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 2, Number 2
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-