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- At the D.C. P1003 committee meeting, there were two documents which
- were referred to more than any others which were not actually submitted
- as proposals to the committee: The System V Interface Definition
- (The Purple Book), and the X/OPEN PORTABILITY GUIDE (The Green Book).
- (The /usr/group Standard was constantly being referred to implicitly,
- since the current P1003 drafts are derived from it, and of course the
- X3J11 draft standard was of great interest.)
-
- X/OPEN is "A Group of European Computer Manufacturers" who have produced
- a document intended to promote the writing of portable facilities.
- Their flyer remarks (in five languages), "Now we all speak the same
- language in Europe."
-
- The book is published by
-
- Elsevier Science Publishers
- Book Order Department
- PO Box 211
- 1000 AE Amsterdam
- The Netherlands
-
- or, for those in the U.S.A. or Canada:
-
- Elsevier Science Publishers Co Inc.
- PO Box 1663
- Grand Central Station
- New York, NY 10163
-
- The price is Dfl 275,00 or USD 75.00. According to the order form,
- "This price includes the costs of one update which will be mailed
- automatically upon publication." They take a large number of credit
- cards and other forms of payment.
-
- Could someone please send me details on how to order the SVID so
- I can post that, too? While I realize that such announcements
- may appear somewhat commercial, nonetheless the X/OPEN and SVID
- documents are of sufficiently direct interest to the standards
- effort to post access information for them. (If you disagree
- with this assertion, let me know.)
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 2, Number 10
-
-