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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