XPG4 Question

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From: Glenn Hoogerwerf
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:28

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Submitted-by: glenn@rainier.berkeley.edu (Glenn Hoogerwerf)

    After reviewing the XPG4 snapshot, I am left with the following
question.  If a utility is marked as TO BE WITHDRAWN in XPG4, does
this open the utility up as being waiverable.  In other words, does
one have to implement pax, tar, and cpio, instead of just pax.  
Another example is cc and c89.  It seems unreasonable that one 
would have to implement a dead interface, such as cc, if it is going
away in the next release.  I realize that many of the interfaces
might consist of shells that turn around and call the POSIX.2 
interface, but in the case of lint or dis, life is not that simple.

- Glenn Hoogerwerf
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