Access to P1003 Draft 6; V5N2

[Moderator, John Quarterman]

I've been getting questions about how to get copies of P1003.D6,
so here are the directions once again.

Balloting on Draft 6 as the Trial Use Standard just completed
and resolution of the ballots will continue at least through the
P1003 meeting in Denver just before the Denver USENIX this month.


An online document which "represents" P1003 Draft 6 is on sally.UTEXAS.EDU
for retrieval by anonymous ftp (connect with ftp, log in as anonymous
with password guest) over the ARPA Internet.  The files are:

-rw-r--r--  1 jsq      bin        419840 Nov 27 21:48 ~ftp/pub/P1003.D6
-rw-r--r--  1 jsq      bin        376814 Nov 27 21:50 ~ftp/pub/P1003.D6.doc
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp     uucp       141981 Nov 22 17:37 ~ftp/pub/P1003.D6.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 uucp     uucp       124055 Nov 24 01:31 ~ftp/pub/P1003.D6.doc.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 jsq      bin           512 Dec  1 11:26 ~ftp/pub/P1003.D6.run

P1003.D6 is a tar archive of the source for the document.
P1003.D6.doc is an nroff formatted copy of the document, suitable
	for printing on a line printer (contains form feeds and backspaces).
P1003.D6.Z and P1003.D6.doc.Z are compressed copies of the above files.
They were compressed with compress version 4, a public domain program
which has been distributed over newsgroup net.sources on USENET.
There is a copy on sally.UTEXAS.EDU in ~ftp/pub/compress.shar.

P1003.D6.run is a replacement for the run script in the archive,
which was for local use on decvax.  You will still need to adapt
it to your printer if it's not an ln01.

The list of hosts which previously made Draft 5 available are
sally.UTEXAS.EDU, as above; on UUCP:  ut-sally (contact ut-sally!jsq),
decvax (contact decvax!jmcg), l5, seismo, ucbvax, munnari, and enea.
Presumably they will all pick up at least the compressed files.

Those of you who have asked for copies by UUCP mail:  I've found
a method; please contact me again if you're still interested.
If you're on the ARPA Internet you should use ftp.

The rest of this article is a note which appears in the document:


This online document represents, but IS NOT, the current DRAFT (Draft 6,
produced 15 November 1985) of the IEEE Computer Society's P1003 Working
Group for a "Portable Operating System Environment" based on the UNIX
Operating System (Trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories).

This material is copyright of IEEE, with ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.  Please
respect these restrictions so we can continue to offer on-line access to
the information.

If you want to join the Correspondent Group (don't expect to make
meetings), the Working Group, or Balloting group for this standards
effort please contact:

	 Jim Isaak			 decvax!frog!jim
	 Charles River Data Systems
	 983 Concord Street
	 Framingham, MA  01701.

(Jim needs your US Mail address to send you information about the effort;
he also needs your IEEE Membership Number if you wish to join the Balloting
Group).

Draft 6 was prepared for the Trial Use Balloting now taking place, with
a final use ballot some time near the end of 1986.

A moderated USENET group exists for on-line discussion of this effort
under the name: mod.std.unix

If you want hard copies of the DRAFT, you can obtain these from:

	Beth Cummings
	IEEE Standards Office;
	345 E. 47th Street
	New York, NY  10017


Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 2