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- Submitted-by: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
-
- In article <1991Jun3.192534.28089@uunet.uu.net> clive@x.co.uk (Clive Feather) writes:
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- Let us not. Let us RTFS instead.
-
- Sigh. RTFS, of course, stands for Read The Source. Which, of course,
- is the way these kinds of issues were once handled in Unix-land.
- Later came "experiment", which also confirms the Posix method. Since
- nobody but the FSF seems to want real Posix.1 compliance and ANSI C
- compliance in one system, I guess Reat The Standard will not be a good
- clue to the behavior of Posix compliance claiming systems.
-
- -mib
-
- [ Personal comment here: the one vendor I personally know who had
- qualms about full POSIX compliance did so because of backwards-
- compatibility problems. I suspect many vendors will have the
- same reservations. So, how about it: is full compliance worth
- breaking old programs/scripts? --mod ]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 85
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