Access to UNIX-Related Standards

[Moderator, John Quarterman]

[ This will get incorporated into the next posting of the article
Access to UNIX-Related Standards.  -mod ]

From: pyramid!amdahl!hlj at sally.utexas.edu (Hal Jespersen, co-chair, P1003.2)
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 86 14:27:41 PDT

The IEEE P1003.2 "Shell and Utilities" Working Group is developing a
proposed standard to complement the 1003.1 POSIX standard.  It will
consist of

	a shell command language (currently planned to be based on the
	Bourne Shell),

	groups of utility programs, or commands,

	programmatic interfaces to the shell (system(), popen()) and
	related facilities (regular expressions, file name expansion,
	etc.)

	defined environments (variables, file hierarchies, etc) that
	applications may rely upon

which will allow application programs to be developed out of existing
pieces, in the UNIX tradition.  The scope of the standard emphasizes
commands and features that are more typically used by shell scripts or
C language programs than those that are oriented to the terminal user
with windows, mice, visual shells, and so forth.

The group is currently seeking proposals for groupings of commands that
may be offered by implementors.  As groups are identified, command
descriptions will be solicited.  There is no requirement that the commands
be in System V or BSD today, but they should realistically be commands 
that are commonly found in most existing implementations.

Meetings are normally held in conjunction with the 1003.1 group and
have a large membership overlap.  The next meeting is 12/8/86, and
possibly the morning of the 9th, in Atlantic City.  Future meetings
will generally be held on the day or two preceding 1003.1.

The 1003.2 mailing list is the same as 1003.1's.  Contact Jim Isaak to
be put on the mailing list.

[ That address is:

	James Isaak
	Chairperson, IEEE/CS P1003
	Charles River Data Systems
	983 Concord St.
	Framingham, MA 01701
	decvax!frog!jim

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