where are the specs

[Winfried Truemper]

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
 
> does anybody happen to know where I could download
> a copy of the specs?  $much is a little out of my
> reach at the moment ;(

The IEEE is in progress of allowing me to offer the electronic
version for public download:

	[..] I will give you permission to use and reproduce it as long as
	you use the necessary notices indicating IEEE copyright and that
	this is a withdrawn draft standard.

The page is already set up, but I would like to add the formats 
"plain text" and "html", before the page is shown to the IEEE. 
See http://www.guug.de/~winni/posix.1e/download.html, but
please don't spread the URL until we have the final ok.

Unfortunately, I lack tools to build the document from the
troff-sources. If anyone could help out, so all formats
could be "authorized"... please reply to me personally,
not to the list.

Another question would be the generation of man-pages from the
troff-sources. It will be more difficult than the permission for everybody
to just read the withdrawn standard, because we would need the right to
distribute modified versions of IEEE works. Having looked at the relevant
parts of the paper, I fear that it will cost us significant editorial work
anyways (read: we can't just copy&paste from the standards paper). There
are too many shalls and ifs addressing the needs of a standard - the
manpage should address the actual implementation. If *some* sentences
happen to be identical in our manpages, that won't be a problem, IMHO.


Regards
-Winfried

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