Rich Kulaweic wrote:
> > >From Computist Communique, 14 October:
> > (Posix is the Unix file system.)
>
> Posix is NOT the Unix file systems. Quoting from one of the Usenet FAQs:
>
> "POSIX is a name originally coined by Richard Stallman for a
> family of open system standards based on UNIX. There are a
> number of aspects of UNIX under consideration for
> standardization, from the basic system services at the system
> call and C library level to applications and tools to system
> administration and management. Each area of standardization is
> assigned to a working group in the 1003 series."
>
> While some of what the cited report says make sense, this is a fairly
> howling error that makes me wonder how clueful this person really is.
Thanks for taking the time to give us this FAQ chunk. That sentence had
seemed innacurate to me, too, but since I don't know much about POSIX, I
thought maybe my vague recollection was wrong.
Jack
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