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- This is the first article in Volume 12 of comp.std.unix.
-
- The USENET newsgroup comp.std.unix is also known as the ARPA Internet
- mailing list std-unix@uunet.uu.net. It is for discussions of
- UNIX standards, particularly the IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Trial Use Standard.
- The moderator is John S. Quarterman, who is also the institutional
- representative of the USENIX Association to the IEEE P1003 Portable
- Operating System for Computer Environments Committee (commonly known
- as the UNIX Standards Committee).
-
- Submissions-To: uunet!std-unix or std-unix@uunet.uu.net
- Comments-To: uunet!std-unix-request or std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net
- The former addresses through sally.utexas.edu or ut-sally still work.
-
- Permission to post to the newsgroup is assumed for mail to std-unix.
- Permission to post is not assumed for mail to std-unix-request,
- unless explicitly granted in the mail. Mail to my personal addresses
- will be treated like mail to std-unix-request if it obviously refers
- to the newsgroup.
-
- Archives may be found on uunet.uu.net. The current volume may
- be retreived by anonymous ftp (login anonymous, password guest)
- over the ARPA Internet as
- ~ftp/comp.std.unix/archive
- or
- ~ftp/comp.std.unix/volume.12
- The previous volume may be retrieved as
- ~ftp/comp.std.unix/volume.11
- For hosts with direct UUCP connections to the uunet machine,
- UUCP retrieval should work with, for example,
- /usr/spool/uucppublic/ftp/comp.std.unix/archive
-
- Volumes 1-10 are filed under the old newsgroup name, mod.std.unix,
- as ~ftp/pub/mod.std.unix.v1, ~ftp/pub/mod.std.unix.v2, etc., through
- ~ftp/pub/mod.std.unix.v10. Volume 3 contains the AT&T public domain
- getopt(3). Volume 10 is a special index volume that catalogs Volumes 1-9.
-
- These volumes are strictly for administrative convenience.
- Paper copies of them get delivered to the P1003 committee chair
- from time to time and several members of the committee follow
- the newsgroup on-line.
-
- Also, paper copies will soon be available from the office of the
- USENIX Association, in support of the Institutional Representative
- from USENIX to the IEEE P1003 committee. Selection will be by
- whole volumes only, not by specific articles. This service will
- be available when sufficient disk space is added to USENIX equipment
- in the next few months.
-
- USENIX Association
- P.O. Box 2299
- Berkeley, CA 94710
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-
- The archives have been somewhat cleaned up in the process of indexing
- them. Irrelevant mail headers have been deleted and "From " (not "From:")
- lines in text articles have been escaped or removed to avoid confusing
- mail reading programs. An extra header, "Draft-9:", has been added to
- contain the index references by section of 1003.1 Draft 9 or related
- topic. It is hoped that these changes, together with the access
- information in Volume 10, will make the archives more useful.
-
- Finally, remember that any remarks by any committee member (especially
- including me) in this newsgroup do not represent any position (including
- any draft, proposed or actual, of a standard) of the committee as a
- whole or of any subcommittee unless explicitly stated otherwise
- in such remarks.
-
- UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
- POSIX is a Trademark of IEEE.
- IEEE is a Trademark of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
- Engineers, Inc.
-
- PS: If this article was garbled in transmission to you, that probably
- means it passed through a host still running B news 2.10, which doesn't
- understand moderated newsgroup names that don't start with "mod.".
- You should examine the Path: header, try to determine which host it is,
- and ask them to upgrade to 2.11.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 12, Number 1
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