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Subject: Re: POSIX Conformance (Unanswered in "questions" so I forwarded...)
To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
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> Uh, Terry, I suggest you go back and re-read that URL.  These are IEEE 
> standards for measuring conformance to IEEE standards.  :-)
> 
> From the IEEE web site:
> 
>    13210-1994 (ISO/IEC) [ANSI/IEEE 1003.3-1991] 
>    Information Technology-Test Methods for Measuring Conformance to POSIX(R)
>    64 pages [1-55937-494-2] [SH94251-NYF] $42.00
> 
>    2003.1-1992 IEEE Standard for Information Technology-Test Methods for
>    Measuring Conformance to POSIX.-Part 1: System Interfaces          
>    456 pages [1-55937-275-3] [SH15826-NYF] $96.00

The documents you should be interested in are:

    NIST-PCTS:151-2--Installation and Testing Guide
    NIST POSIX Testing Policy--General Information
    NIST POSIX Testing Policy--Certificate of Validation Requirements
			       for FIPS 151-2

They are available via that URL.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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