From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 27 23:35:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA26699 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:35:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu (cu6796@konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.35.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA26676 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:35:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jw250@localhost) by konichiwa.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA26050; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 02:35:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 02:35:00 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Wise To: VaX#n8 cc: tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ash & POSIX 1003.2 q's In-Reply-To: <199701270724.BAA12986@linkdead.paranoia.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, VaX#n8 wrote: > There's more to this parsing business than meets the eye. > I started to fix some minor stuff; I got showtree working pretty well, > and started to fool with some minor sh bugs, when I realized what > I really needed was a functional definition like POSIX 1003.2. > If someone would loan me a copy, I'd fix up ash -- if people thought > it would be a worthwhile task. I'm as much of a minimalist as the > next person, but maybe forgetting about it is better, I dunno. You can find 1991 draft copies of Posix 1003.2, 1003.2a, and 1003.2b (the shell and utilities standards) at ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/posix/ They're big and they're a late draft (11.2) rather than the final standards, but they're definitely nice to have. Would anyone in the know care to comment on what changed between draft 11.2 and the final standards, in this area? Hope this helps... -- Jim Wise jim@santafe.arch.columbia.edu http://www.arch.columbia.edu/~jim * Finger for PGP public key *