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- From: pyramid!amdahl!hlj@sally.utexas.edu (Hal Jespersen, co-chair, P1003.2)
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 86 14:27:41 PDT
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- The IEEE P1003.2 "Shell and Utilities" Working Group is developing a
- proposed standard to complement the 1003.1 POSIX standard. It will
- consist of
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- a shell command language (currently planned to be based on the
- Bourne Shell),
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- groups of utility programs, or commands,
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- programmatic interfaces to the shell (system(), popen()) and
- related facilities (regular expressions, file name expansion,
- etc.)
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- defined environments (variables, file hierarchies, etc) that
- applications may rely upon
-
- which will allow application programs to be developed out of existing
- pieces, in the UNIX tradition. The scope of the standard emphasizes
- commands and features that are more typically used by shell scripts or
- C language programs than those that are oriented to the terminal user
- with windows, mice, visual shells, and so forth.
-
- The group is currently seeking proposals for groupings of commands that
- may be offered by implementors. As groups are identified, command
- descriptions will be solicited. There is no requirement that the commands
- be in System V or BSD today, but they should realistically be commands
- that are commonly found in most existing implementations.
-
- Meetings are normally held in conjunction with the 1003.1 group and
- have a large membership overlap. The next meeting is 12/8/86, and
- possibly the morning of the 9th, in Atlantic City. Future meetings
- will generally be held on the day or two preceding 1003.1.
-
- The 1003.2 mailing list is the same as 1003.1's. Contact Jim Isaak to
- be put on the mailing list.
-
- [ That address is:
-
- James Isaak
- Chairperson, IEEE/CS P1003
- Charles River Data Systems
- 983 Concord St.
- Framingham, MA 01701
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