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Re: Order of look-up for included interfaces



On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:35:32PM -0500, Andrew Pham wrote:
> Since we received different pointers as to which standard to take as the
> base reference, at different stages of our
> 'documenting-included-interfaces' endeavor ; we would like to post the
> exact order in which we look up stuffs.  First, to make sure that we are
> going down the right path; and second, so that anyone who has any other
> suggestion/feedback; please lets us know.
> 
> ORDER OF  PRECIDENCE and LOOK-UP for a BASE-REFERENCE :
>      ( for reference and compare)
> 
>      1) ISO-C99     (pay preview)
>      2)SUSv3   www.opengroup.org/austin/
>      3)SUSv2   http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xshix.html
>      4)SUS-XSH -XCU -XBD -XCURSES -XNS
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xnsix.html
> 
> Where we found GNU upstream man pages :
>      (for compare and copy)
> 
>      ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/     maintained by
> Andries.Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>.
> 
> 
> Where we found 4.4BSD-lite man pages :
>      (for copy only)
> 
>      http://www.BSDI.COM/bsdi-man
>
Might I suggest another valuable source...
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi

OpenBSD manpages tend to cover most items when I can't locate one on my
Debian/Linux box.

Gordon Sadler



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