Getting 1003.5

Getting 1003.5

[medve]

			Hi,


	How can I get the 1003.5 POSIX standard? Even a draft will do.


			Emilian Medve

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Re: Getting 1003.5

[John McCabe]

medve@my-dejanews.com wrote:

>	How can I get the 1003.5 POSIX standard? Even a draft will do.

It would appear that you have to buy it! I had a look round a while ago 
with no luck except for a listing of the contents and a price.

You may manage to get a draft easily, but the real thing is expensive.


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Re: Getting 1003.5

[Markus Kuhn]

medve@my-dejanews.com writes:
|> 	How can I get the 1003.5 POSIX standard? Even a draft will do.

The POSIX.5 standard

  IEEE Std 1003.5b-1996 Standard for Information Technology--POSIX Ada Language
  Interfaces--Part 1: Binding for System Applications Program Interface
  (API), 550 pages, ISBN 1-55937-758-5, USD 112 (for IEEE members),
  order code SH94432-NYF

can be ordered from IEEE Publications, phone +1-732-981-1393 (1-800-678-IEEE),
fax +1-732-981-9667, or from IEEE Computer Society Publications, 10662 Los
Vaqueros Circle, PO Box 3014, Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264, USA, phone
+1-714-821-8380, fax +1-714-821-4010.

http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/
http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/ordering.html

Standards should be free!

Markus

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