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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 06:55:25 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep06.065525.8475@kithrup.COM> References: <1992Sep2.220141.17026@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Sep4.234429.18294@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <QG0JYC1@taronga.com> Lines: 17 In article <QG0JYC1@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >You're assuming that "posix compliant" means anything actually useful. >From what I've seen it's seriously incomplete for any real applications, >and so amounts to no more than a checkmark on a requirements sheet. I don't know about that. gcc, gas, GNU make, the GNU binutils (and, perforce, the GNU BFD library) can all be built in a POSIX-only environment. (They can do this, partially, because they supply lots of what the need, but that's okay.) Those are real applications, after all. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around." -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.