Jeff Kell wrote:
> Gavin Scott wrote:
>
> > So I still vote for not being able to get at UNIX style names from
> > FOPEN.  We're not raising the wall between Posix and MPE, we're just
> > lowering the ground on the Posix side of the wall a bit.
>
> While we're mentioning the "wall", let's extend the analogy a bit.
The
> current directions (web servers, Samba, Java, etc) are pressing
against
> yet another barrier, the "Posix/Unix" wall.  Granted it's more of a
> child restraint gate than a wall, but it's still an obstacle.  So now
> we have MPE vs Posix vs Unix.  Perhaps the latter should be SCO :-)
>
> Jeff
>

The current name thing, I believe, for Unix is X/Open Spec-1170
(standardizes 1,170 APIs across multi-vendor Unix). So the gates (or
holes) in the wall are for MPE <-> Posix <-> X/Open.

Richard Gambrell