[mod.std.unix] P1003.D5

std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (10/31/85)

An online document which "represents" P1003 Draft 5 is on sally.UTEXAS.EDU,
for retrieval by anonymous ftp (connect with ftp, log in as anonymous
with password guest) over the ARPA Internet.  The files are:

-rw-r--r--  1 jsq      bin        282038 Oct 30 16:08 ~ftp/pub/P1003.D5.doc
-rw-r--r--  1 jsq      bin        337920 Oct 30 16:08 ~ftp/pub/P1003.D5
-rw-r--r--  1 jsq      bin         92315 Oct 30 16:01 ~ftp/pub/P1003.D5.doc.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 jsq      bin        109677 Oct 30 16:01 ~ftp/pub/P1003.D5.Z

P1003.D5 is a tar archive of the source for the document.
P1003.D5.doc is an nroff formatted copy of the document, suitable
	for printing on a line printer (contains form feeds and backspaces).
P1003.D5.Z and P1003.D5.doc.Z are compressed copies of the above files.
They were compressed with compress version 4, a public domain program
which has been distributed over newsgroup net.sources on USENET.
There is a copy on sally.UTEXAS.EDU in ~ftp/pub/compress.v4.shar.

The list of hosts which previously made Draft 4 available are
sally.UTEXAS.EDU, as above; on UUCP:  ut-sally (contact ut-sally!jsq),
decvax (contact decvax!jmcg), seismo, ucbvax, munnari, and enea.
Presumably they will all pick up at least the compressed files.
Some other hosts have asked for copies by mail to make them available.
I will mail those copies when I return from Dallas.

The rest of this article is a note which appears in the document:


This online document represents, but IS NOT, the current DRAFT (Draft
5, produced 22 October 1985) of the IEEE Computer Society's P1003
Working Group for a "Portable Operating System Enviornment" based on
the UNIX Operating System (Trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories).

This material is copyright of IEEE, with ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.  Please
respect these restricitions so we can continue to offer on-line access
to the information.

If you want to join the Correspondent Group (don't expect to make
meetings), the Working Group, or Balloting group for this standards
effort please contact:

	 Jim Isaak			 decvax!frog!jim
	 Charles River Data Systems
	 983 Concord Street
	 Framingham, MA  01701.

(Jim needs your US Mail address to send you information about the effort;
he also needs your IEEE Membership Number if you wish to join the Balloting
Group).

Trial Use balloting is targeted for Nov-Dec 1985, with a final use
ballot some time near the end of 1986.

A moderated USENET group exists for on-line discussion of this effort
under the name: mod.std.unix 

If you want hard copies of the DRAFT, you can obtain these from:

	Beth Cummings
	IEEE Standards Office;
	345 E. 47th Street
	New York, NY  10017

Volume-Number:  Volume 2, Number 18