njacobs@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nick Jacobs - EOS) (05/21/91)
In article <1991May9.181650.12516@homecare.COM> jessea@homecare.COM (Jesse W. Asher) writes: >I'd like to write some software that is very portable between different >types of Unix. I'm not just talking about BSD vs. SystemV, but also how [...etc] Get the XPG manuals from X/Open. Use them as programmer's reference manuals. The X/Open standards are somewhat similar in intent to Posix, but the Posix standard is not really useful because it is too small a subset of Unix. Whereas X/Open is a pretty big subset. If your Unix vendor plans to be still around in a couple of years, he/she/it fully supports the X/Open standard. > Jesse W. Asher Nick Jacobs
jgautier@vangogh.ads.com (Jorge Gautier) (05/22/91)
In article <1991May20.174803.15870@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> njacobs@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nick Jacobs - EOS) writes: >In article <1991May9.181650.12516@homecare.COM> jessea@homecare.COM (Jesse W. Asher) writes: >>I'd like to write some software that is very portable between different >>types of Unix. I'm not just talking about BSD vs. SystemV, but also how >> [...etc] > Get the XPG manuals from X/Open. Use them as programmer's reference > manuals. How can these manuals be obtained? Bookstores, mail order, ? I would appreciate a pointer. Thanks. -- Jorge A. Gautier| "The enemy is at the gate. And the enemy is the human mind jgautier@ads.com| itself--or lack of it--on this planet." -General Boy DISCLAIMER: All statements in this message are false.