ansi c and directories

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1666 at uvaarpa.virginia.edu> randall at uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Randall Atkinson) writes:
> ANSI C specifies the C Language not full OS interfaces.  There is
> a standard for the OS interfaces and POSIX is it.

Wrong. POSIX is a standard for the UNIX OS interface. It is not implementable
on most personal computers, for example. There is a huge gap between what ANSI
specifies and what's useful on most systems, and nother huge gap between that
and POSIX.

> Questions about POSIX should be redirected to comp.std.unix and
> questions about ANSI C should really be placed in comp.std.c

And pepole really trying to bridge the gap should get into the C-FUTURES
mailing list. *AND* comp.lang.c.
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