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To: Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: HELP: POSIX standard
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 17:19:41 -0700
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At 09:59  5/4/1998 -0400, Vic wrote:
>We're making n OS and would like to make it POSIX compliant. Where can
>we find a description of the standard, without buying it from anyone, or
>a book. How did Linus get it for Linux? DJ??

I don't think you can get it "without buying it." IEEE makes their money by
selling the standard. I don't know offhand of any other references to the
standard, and if you want to be totally pedantic you'll want the official
copy anyway.

BTW, I think it's the case (or at least it used to be) that the official
definition of "POSIX-compliant" involved running the package through a
verification suite. This suite is owned by someone (USL?) and they charge a
lot of money to do it.

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com