Re: file ID redesign proposal

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:03:48 -0500 (EST)


Larry McVoy writes:

> P.S. It occurs to me that people like Mingo ought to have
> a POSIX manual but may not because of the $114 price tag.
> Maybe some of us fringe elements ought to put a pool together
> to make sure the top kernel developers get a copy. Any other
> fringe types with a spare $114?

For $65 to $85, you can get Unix98 (Version 2 of the Single
UNIX Specification) documentation. I'm not sure if it includes
all of POSIX, but POSIX is old anyway. Even NT is POSIX.
http://www.UNIX-systems.org/gosolo2/