Access to IEEE P1003 proposed draft standard

[John Quarterman]

Draft 4 of the proposed draft standard of the IEEE P1003
Portable Operating System Environment committee is available
by anonymous ftp from sally.UTEXAS.EDU as ~ftp/pub/P1003.D4.Z,
which is a compressed tar file.

If you have a UUCP connection to decvax, you can probably get
it from them if you drop a note to decvax!jmcg.  If you have
a UUCP connection to ut-sally, drop me <ut-sally!jsq> a line
and we'll negotiate about getting it from sally.  Neither
decvax nor ut-sally can accept new UUCP connections solely
for this purpose.

We're still looking for some UUCP host with very high connectivity
to make it generally available on the UUCP network.  Volunteers?

In agreeing to make the draft available by these methods,
IEEE requires that it *only* be available from a limited set
of hosts.  That set is currently sally.UTEXAS.EDU (aka ut-sally)
and decvax.  If you get it from anywhere else, even if the
bits compare, it's not the real thing.  Please do *not*
make any copies publicly available for UUCP or ftp transfer
without letting me know.

Note that the document is not a standard.  It is not even
a trial use standard.  It is a proposed draft standard.
The following text appears on the title page:

		Portable Operating System Environment

			      P1003/D4

			   September, 1985

	All rights reserved by the Institute of Electrical and
	Electronics Engineers, Inc.

	This is an unapproved draft and is subject to change.

	Do not specify or claim conformance to this document.

In the above comments about access to and status of the draft,
I am representing the opinion of the committee and IEEE,
as I understand it.

This particular draft is the one which was current at the *beginning*
of the committee meeting last week near Washington D.C.  The next
draft should be available in about three weeks.  Meanwhile, you
should know about a few things which were changed after this draft.
Most of the C library functions are now not in the P1003 standard,
rather the P1003 standard refers to the X3J11 C standard for them.
Similarly for most C type definitions and some system calls.
Getlogname and ustat are gone.  Termio is now in an appendix.
I will post more details in following articles.

Volume-Number: Volume 2, Number 2