Re: Writing Book, Need Ada Ammunition

[mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)]

aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) writes:
|> >There exists no single book yet that talks about POSIX.5 and FLORIST.
|> 
|> This reminds me, does anybody know if the POSIX-Ada standard has been
|> printed yet, and if so where can I order it from?

Yes. POSIX.5b has a dark green cover and has been sitting on my desk for
over a year now.

From <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ada.html>, one of the best information
sources about Ada on the Web:

The POSIX.5b 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. 

You might also want to have a quick look at a draft of POSIX.5c 
(which adds TCP/IP sockets etc., but is not yet implemented
in Florist) on

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/

I don't know whether this one has already been published in a
final version.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>