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- From: duke@portal.paperboy.osf.org (Duke Robillard)
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- Subject: Re: Standards Update, POSIX.7b: Software Administration
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 03:46:35 -0800
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- Submitted-by: duke@portal.paperboy.osf.org (Duke Robillard)
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- In article <1iakluINNblv@ftp.UU.NET> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
-
- >>consensus based progress, POSIX.7 is now split into two documents
- >>called POSIX.7a (print queue administration) and POSIX.7b (software
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >administration).
- >Isn't this a rather narrow subject for a POSIX standard...
- >I assume 7b is where all the interesting stuff is going to be.
-
- Actually, POSIX.7 is being split into n documents, one for each area
- of system administration. 1003.7.1 (what Esti called .7a) is about
- print systems, 1003.7.2 (formally known as .7b) is about software
- package installation, 1003.7.3 will be about user management, etc.
-
- >You're going to have to dump BSD spooling, dump System V spooling, or
- >dump both and create something out of whole cloth.
-
- Well, some people claim we've done the later, although that a little
- extreme. We've adopted Palladium, the print system developed at MIT's
- Project Athena. It's an implementation of the ISO Print Standard.
-
- >If it's the latter, why not create a generalised batch queueing and
- >scheduling system that just happens to include printing?
-
- We thought about that, but couldn't find any software like that to base
- the standard on.
-
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