Re: UNIX and POSIX

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From: Marcus J. Ranum
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 15:25

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In article <sent.Wed.Nov.7.19:54:32.GMT.1990.via.CS.TARDIS> gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk writes:

>I would like to write a posix-compatible interface to C for the Acorn
>Archimedes, which is also not a unix machine.  Could someone mail me
>with suggestions of how to find out exactly what the interface is please?

	You can buy a copy of the POSIX standard from IEEE for about $40
US. They'll probably ship it abroad, since it's not a dangerous munition. :)
I asked around before I bought my copy - it seems there aren't any machine
readable versions lying around on the net.

mjr.

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