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- From: nike!pyramid!amdahl!hlj@sally.utexas.edu (Hal Jespersen)
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 86 13:06:16 PDT
-
- Here is a subject != timezones.
- [ Much appreciated, for sure. -mod ]
-
- The P1003.2 Shell and Utilities Working Group is currently soliciting
- input for proposed commands to be included in the standard. It is felt
- by the Working Group that these commands should be grouped into
- "command suites" that would not have to be implemented by all
- conforming implementations [as long as the implementations identified
- which suites were there, of course]. This is similar to the
- organization of AT&T's SVID, where commands are divided into
- "extensions".
-
- Three companies at the September Palo Alto meeting promised to submit
- RFCs on proposed suite names and the contents of each suite, by command
- name. One of these was AT&T, who will submit the SVID organization.
-
- In the meantime, does anyone have suggestions on which commands to
- include and how to organize them? Remember that the charter of the
- Working Group generally limits the commands to:
-
- commands usefully executable via the shell by application
- programs or shell scripts (i.e., not terminal interface
- programs, or window managers, etc.)
-
- user-level, and not system administrative, commands.
-
- If you have a detailed proposal to submit to the Working Group, contact
- me or:
-
- Don Cragun
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- 2550 Garcia Avenue
- Mountain View, CA 94043
- (415) 691-7487
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- Thanks for your input.
-
- Hal Jespersen
- (408) 746-8288
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