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- An update on UNIX|= Standards Activities - Part 1
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- Overview
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- February 20, 1989
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- Shane P. McCarron, NAPS International
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- This marks the fifth in a series of articles about the Unix
- Standards community. Before we get too far here, I would
- like to apologize for the lateness of this particular
- report. While it should have been out in mid-February, it
- is now late March and I am just completing the editing.
- Hopefully this type of delay will not be seen again.
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- THe big news this quarter is that the ANSI C Standard
- X3.159-1989 has been approved by the X3 Secretariat. This
- means that the X3 people are satisfied with the technical
- merit of the standard, as well as with the procedures that
- were followed in completing it. Once it has been formally
- reviewed by ANSI, we will have an American National standard
- for the C language. This is good and bad. The C Language
- standard has a few glaring flaw that make it all but
- impossible to write a truly portable application. I am
- certain that it is possible to write a mostly portable
- application with little difficulty, but that wasn't really
- the goal of the standard. More on this later.
-
- This quarter we have reports from a number of committees.
- They are in various states of repair, with varying levels of
- detail. I have received little feedback from you about how
- much detail should be included in the reports.
- Consequently, it has been left up to the Usenix Watchdog
- Committee contacts to generate as much or as little material
- as they see fit. If you have comments on this, please send
- them to me or directly to the contact person whose report
- you are commenting on.
-
- As always, we are looking for a few good people to represent
- us in standards committees. If you would like to work with
- us in trying to bring the world of standards to light,
- please contact the Standards Watchdog Committee's Volunteer
- Coordinator, Marc Teitelbaum <marc@okeeffe.berkeley.edu>.
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- |= UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the U.S. and
- other countries.
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- Please look to the subsequent postings in this series for
- all of the reports. If you have any comments or
- suggestions, please contact me at:
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- Shane P. McCarron
- NAPS International
- 117 Mackubin St.
- Suite 6
- St. Paul, MN 55102
- +1 (612) 224-9239
- ahby@bungia.mn.org
- uunet!bungia.mn.org!ahby
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- Publisher's note: Shane has moved and taken a new job.
- We are currently looking for a new report editor.
- Interested applicants please send electronic mail to
- jsq@usenix.org or talk to Marc Teitelbaum at the IEEE 1003
- meeting in Minneapolis, 24-28 April. -John S. Quarterman
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- Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 31
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