On Wed, 09 Feb 2000, Syed Khader Vali used an e-pen to say :
>
>Dude, BSD is also *NIX and the sources of BSD are out there. So, what he says
>is true ( Unless someone kicks my b*** here ;-)
Lexicographically, neither BSD nor Linux is *NIX. Stuff like XENIX is ;)!!
>
>*NIX is a standard. So, anything which comes upto this standard is certified and is
>allowed
>to use the *NIX trademark. Maybe I am wrong, but someone can enlighten more about
>*NIX here.
>HTH
*NIX is a generic name given to different flavours or descendants of The
UNIX (TM) Op. Sys, trademarked by AT&T / Bell , i guess. There are some
systems which are not *NIX. That is, feed them with a rm -rf * command
and they will shout "Bad command or file name". *NIX systems will be
decent enuff to comply with your request and depending on where you are
could result in a loss of 22 years of work on your SETI project. :-)
If you are talking about standards, a closer thread which binds _most_
*NIX systems together, i think that is POSIX.
sh
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