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- From: cflatter@NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: Re: POSIX Question
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:20:40 -0800
- Organization: NRAO
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- Submitted-by: cflatter@NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
-
- In article 1hals4INN9hm@ftp.UU.NET, jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
- >Does the user interface standard (or whatever it's called) make
- >any reference to the "vacation" program -- i.e., is vacation(1)
- >a required or optional part of a POSIX implementation.
-
- It wasn't in the last draft of POSIX.2a (the User Portability Extension or
- UPE) that I have (draft 8). Nor is it listed among the utilities considered
- but omitted.
-
- For reference: the commands covered (not counting modifications to POSIX.2
- commands) are (were?).
-
- alias at batch bg crontab
- csplit ctags df du ex
- expand fc fg file jobs
- man mesg more newgrp nice
- nm patch ps renice split
- strings tabs talk time tput
- unalias unexpand uudecode uuencode vi
- who write
-
- Considered but excluded were
-
- SCCS/RCS compress/uncompress/zcat
- emacs lint
- m4 passwd
- sdiff
-
- Chris Flatters
- cflatter@nrao.edu
-
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 87
-