comp.std.unix Volume 17

[Moderator, John S. Quarterman]

This is the first article in Volume 17 of comp.std.unix.
These volumes are purely for administrative convenience.
Feel free to continue any previous discussion or start new ones.

The USENET newsgroup comp.std.unix is also known as the mailing list
std-unix at uunet.uu.net.  It is for discussions of standards related
to the UNIX operating system, particularly of IEEE P1003, or POSIX,
including IEEE 1003.1, 1003.2, etc.  Other related subjects include
but are not limited to ISO/IEC SC22 WG15 (the ISO and IEC version
of POSIX), X/Open and their X/Open Portability Guide (XPG),
the Open Software Foundation (OSF), UNIX International (UI),
the AT&T System V Interface Definition (SVID), System V Release 3,
System V Release 4, 4.2BSD, 4.3BSD, 4.4BSD, Ninth Edition UNIX,
the UniForum Technical Committee, the USENIX Standards Watchdog
Committee, the X3.159 C Standard by the ANSI X3.159 committee and
the corresponding ISO committee, and other language standards.

The moderator is John S. Quarterman, who is also the institutional
representative of the USENIX Association to IEEE P1003.

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Various other names mentioned above are trademarked; I hope their owners
	will not object if I do not list them all here.

Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 1