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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: HPUX & SVID
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 13:39:14 GMT
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- In article <FRANL.92Nov11213655@draco.centerline.com> franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
- >atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- >
- >> To be quite blunt, I'd like to see HP migrate HPUX to be fully
- >> System V Interface Definition (SVID), Version 3 compliant. HPUX is
- >> currently fully compliant with SVID 2.0 which dates back to the
- >> mid-1980s.
- >
- >I'm curious. Can you provide a specific example of SVID version 3
- >functionality that you have tried to use which is not in HP-UX 8.0 (on
- >the series 300/400) or HP-UX 8.07 (on the series 700)?
-
- No problem: STREAMS is an obvious one
- (though STREAMS actually first appeared in SVID 2.2)
-
- There are a fair number of others as well that I've discovered
- whilst trying to port various and sundry software from other platforms
- to the HP. I'm not talking about unimportant things like RFS, but
- other more substantial things.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
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