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From: labtek@cs.yale.edu (Tom Griest)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/12
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references: <dewar.828757752@schonberg> <4kkbk7$hv8@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
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organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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Date: 1996-04-12T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4kkru5INN71j@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) writes:
>In article <4kkbk7$hv8@nntp.Stanford.EDU>,
>Chuck Karish <karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>>In article <dewar.828757752@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>>>"You know, POSIX, Spec 1170, X/Open, that kind of stuff.  POSIX is the one the
>>>US govt. will not use Win NT because of, because it doesn't match the spec
>>>they've selected."
>>
>>Incorrect premise: Windows NT does conform to POSIX.1 and the
>>US Government does buy it as a FIPS 151-2 conforming system.
>
>It does? You mean under NT, I could, say, disable the console echo by making
>suitable changes to a ``struct termios'', and pass it to tcsetattr()?
>Or send a SIGTSTP signal to the foreground process group from the controlling
>terminal? Wow...

I know the Government is buying NT in quantity.  Although I
have not personally used either of these two Posix features on NT, both
are documented in the SDK under the Posix directory.  
The major problem with Posix on NT is that you don't get Posix
functionality and windows funtionality in the same process.
But as far as running Posix applications, my limited experience 
is that they do work fine.

-Tom