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2 total messages Started by John G Dobnick Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:31

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Author: John G Dobnick
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:31

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Submitted-by: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)

I lack access to the POSIX standards, either adopted or proposed, so
this seems a good place to ask this.

Does the user interface standard (or whatever it's called) make
any reference to the "vacation" program -- i.e., is vacation(1) 
a required or optional part of a POSIX implementation.

I'm basically looking for a yes or no answer, although if this
_is_ part of POSIX, a short note about its similarity to the BSD
vacation program would also be appreciated.

(I hope that wasn't _too_ unintelligable.)

Also, if there is an FAQ repository for such things as the Tables of
Contents of the various POSIX sections, a pointer to this would
also be appreciated.

Thanks much,

-- 
John G Dobnick                          ATTnet: (414) 229-5727
Computing Services Division             INTERNET: jgd@uwm.edu
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee     UUCP: uunet!uwm!jgd

Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 85

Re: POSIX Question

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Author: Chris Flatters
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:20

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Submitted-by: cflatter@NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)

In article 1hals4INN9hm@ftp.UU.NET, jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
>Does the user interface standard (or whatever it's called) make
>any reference to the "vacation" program -- i.e., is vacation(1) 
>a required or optional part of a POSIX implementation.

It wasn't in the last draft of POSIX.2a (the User Portability Extension or
UPE) that I have (draft 8).  Nor is it listed among the utilities considered
but omitted.

For reference: the commands covered (not counting modifications to POSIX.2
commands) are (were?).

alias		at		batch		bg		crontab
csplit		ctags		df		du		ex
expand		fc		fg		file		jobs
man		mesg		more		newgrp		nice
nm		patch		ps		renice		split
strings		tabs		talk		time		tput
unalias		unexpand	uudecode	uuencode	vi
who		write

Considered but excluded were

SCCS/RCS			compress/uncompress/zcat
emacs				lint
m4				passwd
sdiff

	Chris Flatters
	cflatter@nrao.edu


Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 87

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