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From: chrisb@tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame
Date: 22 Jul 1994 01:09:22 GMT
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In article 774688509@dynamo,  mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green) writes:
> 
> this is not intended as a flame to any of the authors cited.
> 
> 
> byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
> >Well Linux is Posix compliant which means it has features of
> >both SV and BSD but favors SV.
> 
> to me, you're hinting that netbsd and freebsd are not posix
> compliant, which is plain wrong.
> 

Is this actually true that bsd is posix compliant? For example, Is the bsd's sh 
shell posix compliant? Are the various utilities?

(Note that I'm not accusing bsd of not being compliant, I'm really want to know).