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- From: pyramid!amdahl!hlj@sally.utexas.edu (Hal Jespersen)
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 06:59:26 PST
- Organization: Amdahl Corp, UTS Products Group
-
- In article <6128@ut-sally.UUCP>:
- >From: utah-cs!cbosgd!cbosgd.ATT.COM!mark (Mark Horton)
- >Date: Mon, 27 Oct 86 20:51:58 est
- >
- >In comparing various C libraries and standards, I discovered several
- >important routines that are in neither POSIX nor X3J11. I'd like to
- >find out why they are missing. Would you please either answer these,
- >ask the appropriate person, or post to mod.std.unix?
- >
- >Some of these functions were explicitly created to enhance portability,
- >so it seems surprising to omit them.
- >
- >getopt...
- >
- This is actively being addressed in the 1003.2 Shell and Utilities
- Working Group.
-
- >curses...
- >
- This is not being addressed by 1003.2, as we are purposely avoiding
- terminal interfaces and concentrating on shell interfaces from application
- programs, such as through...
-
- >popen...
- >
- which _is_ being included in 1003.2.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 4
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