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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 06:55:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep06.065525.8475@kithrup.COM>
- References: <1992Sep2.220141.17026@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <QG0JYC1@taronga.com>
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- In article <QG0JYC1@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >You're assuming that "posix compliant" means anything actually useful.
- >From what I've seen it's seriously incomplete for any real applications,
- >and so amounts to no more than a checkmark on a requirements sheet.
-
- I don't know about that. gcc, gas, GNU make, the GNU binutils (and,
- perforce, the GNU BFD library) can all be built in a POSIX-only environment.
- (They can do this, partially, because they supply lots of what the need, but
- that's okay.)
-
- Those are real applications, after all.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
- sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around."
- -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
-