From: Damian Yerrick <DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM>
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Subject: Re: [ANN] Announcing PW32 - the DJGPP 'port' to Win32
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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 21:53:19 GMT
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On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 21:44:24 +0000, Richard Dawe
<richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> wrote:

>Hello.
>
>Damian Yerrick wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 08:38:02 -0500, Rodeo Red <rodeored AT netstep DOT net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >Could someone please translate this into Newbie ?
>> 
>> It's a port of DJGPP libc to MinGW that fills in a gap called POSIX.
>
>libc is the C library. MinGW is a port of the GNU tools to 32-bit Windows
>platforms - "minimalist GNU for Windows", or something similar I think.
>POSIX is a standard for programming interfaces by ISO (IIRC). Many Unix
>systems provide POSIX-compatible interfaces. Another standard for Unices
>is Unix98, which can be found at http://www.unix-systems.org/ . I see from
>this website that there will be an attempt to merge the POSIX and Unix98
>standards sometime. BTW you can download the Unix98 standard for free,
>whereas you have to purchase POSIX from ISO.
>
>I hope that helps a bit.

Thanks for expanding my macros :-)

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