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- From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
- Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.015548.4228@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM> <1992Sep8.134824.5149@pegasus.com> <1992Sep08.192000.4488@kithrup.COM>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 01:55:48 GMT
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- >>A good example of the problem that half a standard (POSIX) creates! Take
- >>a look at just about any of the larger products that have crossed over
- >>from the DOS world. They all use their own incompatible version of a
- >>termcap-like library.
- >
- >A good example of what a closed mind creates.
- >
- >The termcap library I used was the Net/2 termcap library. Since I was
- >creating a library suite that could be used without any of the system's
- >library or header files, I obviously couldn't use the system termcap library.
- >
- >Sad situation.
- >
-
- A sad situation that a better POSIX standard could have helped to avoid.
-
- Termcap/terminfo is a standard that's available on, pretty much, all
- Unixes. So why leave it out of the POSIX standard?
-
- This is just one example of the problems with POSIX, btw.
-
-
- --
- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com
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