std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (12/23/86)
From: seismo!amdahl!hlj@sally.utexas.edu (Hal Jespersen) Cc: meccts!posix@sally.utexas.edu Date: Sun, 14 Dec 86 15:02:33 PST John, here is the quarterly report from 1003.2, which you may post to mod.std.unix, if you feel it is of general interest. I'm copying the posix mailing list, FYI. The actual list of commands I refer to in this report will be in my next posting. That should get some comments, I'd think. P1003.2 Working Group Quarterly Report-December 1986 Hal Jespersen Amdahl Corporation December 14, 1986 The P1003.2 Shell and Utilities Working Group met in Atlantic City, NJ, December 8 and 9, 1986. The meeting was one and a half days, concurrent with 1003.3 and the 1003.1 Real Time Subcommittee, and prior to the 1003.1 Working Group meeting. The following were the highlights of the meeting: + Three proposals for command groups were received and reviewed. AT&T presented their System V Interface Definition (SVID) grouping-a base, plus extensions. Doug Gwyn of the U.S. Army presented his idea of a single command group, with recommended inclusions. The X/OPEN Group forwarded its list of commands, divided into a mandatory group and an optional software development group. The Working Group adopted this latter approach for its Draft 2: an ``Execution Environment'' and an optional ``Software Development Environment.'' A mandatory ``Application Installation Environment'' is also being considered. + The Working Group tentatively approved the contents of the command environments. From a list of 141 common commands, it categorized them as follows: __________________________________________________ | | Included | Excluded | Undecided | |____________|___________|___________|____________| | Execution | 58 | 18 | 34 | |____________|___________|___________|____________| | Development| 17 | 3 | 11 | |____________|___________|___________|____________| + Both AT&T and X/OPEN have offered the use of their command documentation as a basis for the proposed standard. Non-disclosure agreements are being analyzed for IEEE's approval. + Draft 2 of the proposed standard will include command descriptions for all commands selected in this meeting. The initial source will be the SVID. + The Working Group encountered its first pressure to accommodate international character sets, date formats, collating sequences, etc. A proposal on ``regular expressions'' will be forwarded to the /usr/group Technical Committee on Internationalization for its comments and recommendations. The next meeting is scheduled for April 20 and 21, 1987, in Toronto. It will be two full days, beginning at 9:00 am each day. The 1003.1 meeting will follow for the remainder of the week. Subsequent meetings: + June 24 through 26, 1987, in Seattle. (1003.1 will precede.) + September 14 through 16, 1987 (dates approximate), in the Boston vicinity. Hal Jespersen Amdahl Corp. M/S 316 1250 East Arques Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94088 ...{ihnp4|hplabs|seismo|decwrl}!amdahl!hlj (408) 746-8288 Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 71