std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (09/30/86)
From: nike!pyramid!amdahl!hlj@sally.utexas.edu (Hal Jespersen)
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 86 13:06:16 PDT
Here is a subject != timezones.
[ Much appreciated, for sure. -mod ]
The P1003.2 Shell and Utilities Working Group is currently soliciting
input for proposed commands to be included in the standard. It is felt
by the Working Group that these commands should be grouped into
"command suites" that would not have to be implemented by all
conforming implementations [as long as the implementations identified
which suites were there, of course]. This is similar to the
organization of AT&T's SVID, where commands are divided into
"extensions".
Three companies at the September Palo Alto meeting promised to submit
RFCs on proposed suite names and the contents of each suite, by command
name. One of these was AT&T, who will submit the SVID organization.
In the meantime, does anyone have suggestions on which commands to
include and how to organize them? Remember that the charter of the
Working Group generally limits the commands to:
commands usefully executable via the shell by application
programs or shell scripts (i.e., not terminal interface
programs, or window managers, etc.)
user-level, and not system administrative, commands.
If you have a detailed proposal to submit to the Working Group, contact
me or:
Don Cragun
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
(415) 691-7487
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Thanks for your input.
Hal Jespersen
(408) 746-8288
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