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Re: Bug#490605: debian-policy: please discourage the usage of echo -n, and echo in general



Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:38:56AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> It's unfortunate that SUS requires free registration; it makes it
>> harder to link directly to specific sections of interest.

> I've had http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html
> bookmarked for a long time, which doesn't seem to require registration
> of any kind.

The number after onlinepubs is generated by the registration process.  In
theory, it's tied to whoever registered.  In practice, people copy and
paste links and use other people's registrations, but by my reading of
their web site, that's not really what they would prefer to have happen.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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