1003.2 Quarterly Report
Moderator, John Quarterman
std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP
Wed Dec 24 03:10:10 AEST 1986
From: seismo!amdahl!hlj at sally.utexas.edu (Hal Jespersen)
Cc: meccts!posix at sally.utexas.edu
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 86 15:02:33 PST
John, here is the quarterly report from 1003.2, which you may post to
mod.std.unix, if you feel it is of general interest. I'm copying the
posix mailing list, FYI. The actual list of commands I refer to in this
report will be in my next posting. That should get some comments, I'd
think.
P1003.2 Working Group Quarterly Report-December 1986
Hal Jespersen
Amdahl Corporation
December 14, 1986
The P1003.2 Shell and Utilities Working Group met in
Atlantic City, NJ, December 8 and 9, 1986. The meeting was
one and a half days, concurrent with 1003.3 and the 1003.1
Real Time Subcommittee, and prior to the 1003.1 Working
Group meeting.
The following were the highlights of the meeting:
+ Three proposals for command groups were received and
reviewed. AT&T presented their System V Interface
Definition (SVID) grouping-a base, plus extensions.
Doug Gwyn of the U.S. Army presented his idea of a
single command group, with recommended inclusions. The
X/OPEN Group forwarded its list of commands, divided
into a mandatory group and an optional software
development group. The Working Group adopted this
latter approach for its Draft 2: an ``Execution
Environment'' and an optional ``Software Development
Environment.'' A mandatory ``Application Installation
Environment'' is also being considered.
+ The Working Group tentatively approved the contents of
the command environments. From a list of 141 common
commands, it categorized them as follows:
__________________________________________________
| | Included | Excluded | Undecided |
|____________|___________|___________|____________|
| Execution | 58 | 18 | 34 |
|____________|___________|___________|____________|
| Development| 17 | 3 | 11 |
|____________|___________|___________|____________|
+ Both AT&T and X/OPEN have offered the use of their
command documentation as a basis for the proposed
standard. Non-disclosure agreements are being analyzed
for IEEE's approval.
+ Draft 2 of the proposed standard will include command
descriptions for all commands selected in this meeting.
The initial source will be the SVID.
+ The Working Group encountered its first pressure to
accommodate international character sets, date formats,
collating sequences, etc. A proposal on ``regular
expressions'' will be forwarded to the /usr/group
Technical Committee on Internationalization for its
comments and recommendations.
The next meeting is scheduled for April 20 and 21, 1987, in
Toronto. It will be two full days, beginning at 9:00 am
each day. The 1003.1 meeting will follow for the remainder
of the week.
Subsequent meetings:
+ June 24 through 26, 1987, in Seattle. (1003.1 will
precede.)
+ September 14 through 16, 1987 (dates approximate), in
the Boston vicinity.
Hal Jespersen
Amdahl Corp.
M/S 316
1250 East Arques Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94088
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Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 71
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