randall@Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) (05/28/91)
Submitted-by: randall@Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) In article <1991May28.010441.13817@uunet.uu.net> ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@VM1.gatech.edu (Julian F. Reschke) writes: >I recently heard that future POSIX standards will document `long options' >similar to those used in the GNU file utilities. The above is the first I've heard of such a thing. The most recently reviewed drafts of POSIX.2 and POSIX.2a, which cover the Shell & Utilities area, don't seem to mention any such things. I think that you can purchase these drafts, which are still in balloting last I heard, from the IEEE Standards Office in New Jersey. I miss the snitch reports on what is going on and would welcome any informative (as differentiated from speculative) commentary on the future plans for the Shell & Utilities effort (or other related TCOS efforts for that matter :-). Randall Atkinson randall@Virginia.EDU Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 77
arnold%audiofax.com@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold Robbins) (05/30/91)
Submitted-by: arnold%audiofax.com@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold Robbins) >In article <1991May28.010441.13817@uunet.uu.net> ONM07%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@VM1.gatech.edu (Julian F. Reschke) writes: >>I recently heard that future POSIX standards will document `long options' >>similar to those used in the GNU file utilities. In article <1991May28.072936.26439@uunet.uu.net> randall@Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) writes: > The above is the first I've heard of such a thing. The most >recently reviewed drafts of POSIX.2 and POSIX.2a, which cover the >Shell & Utilities area, don't seem to mention any such things. I can pretty safely say that .2 isn't doing anything like adding gnu-like long options. I doubt .2a is either. The whole thrust of the POSIX effort is (supposed to be) to standardize existing practice. So far .1 and .2 have done OK at it. E.g., dd retains its current, er, *unusual* command line syntax. :-) -- Arnold Robbins AudioFAX, Inc. | Threads are the 2000 Powers Ferry Road, Suite 200 / Marietta, GA. 30067 | lack of an idea. INTERNET: arnold@audiofax.com Phone: +1 404 618 4281 | -- Rob Pike UUCP: emory!audfax!arnold Fax-box: +1 404 618 4581 | Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 80