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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!porpoise!humu!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) Message-ID: <1992Sep10.015548.4228@pegasus.com> Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu References: <1992Sep07.101851.2123@kithrup.COM> <1992Sep8.134824.5149@pegasus.com> <1992Sep08.192000.4488@kithrup.COM> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 01:55:48 GMT Lines: 24 >>A good example of the problem that half a standard (POSIX) creates! Take >>a look at just about any of the larger products that have crossed over >>from the DOS world. They all use their own incompatible version of a >>termcap-like library. > >A good example of what a closed mind creates. > >The termcap library I used was the Net/2 termcap library. Since I was >creating a library suite that could be used without any of the system's >library or header files, I obviously couldn't use the system termcap library. > >Sad situation. > A sad situation that a better POSIX standard could have helped to avoid. Termcap/terminfo is a standard that's available on, pretty much, all Unixes. So why leave it out of the POSIX standard? This is just one example of the problems with POSIX, btw. -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com