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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: POSIX threatens our use of lp/lpr and friends
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <1993Jan21.192822.7976@netcom.com> <51790@drilex.dri.mgh.com> <4169@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:10:22 GMT
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- In article <4169@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
-
- >BRL's MDQS (or MQDS, I'm sure I'll get yelled at again for spelling
- >it wrong) does most of the above except for page seek...
-
- And BRL's code has been around for years, is known to work
- reasonably well on several platforms, is nicely general, the code is
- nicely portable, the code is freely distributable, ...
-
- Kind of makes one wonder why the POSIX.7 people didn't use something
- like it as the basis for their work. [begin sarcasm] I'm sure it
- isn't because they can sell us Palladium for extra cost and then sell
- us Palladium "support" (again extra cost) while they fix it so that it
- works. [end sarcasm]
-
- Any matter, the main thing is that users and sys admins take a good
- hard look at the POSIX proposal and seriously examine whether it is
- suitable or not. If there is a consensus it is good (IMHO unlikely)
- then all is well, if the consensus is the other way the key thing is
- to make sure that the users concerns are heard. Having no standard is
- much better than having a bad standard, IMHO.
-