[PSA MEMBERS] Using (physical) units and quantities
Cameron Laird
claird at Starbase.NeoSoft.COM
Thu Jul 8 09:39:12 EDT 1999
In article <3784268C.340CAD46 at callware.com>,
Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan at callware.com> wrote:
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>> NT has a POSIX (har har) subsystem which will give you case
>> sensitivity. But none of the tools work, so you're dead in the water.
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>Oh, I didn't know that. So, how does anyone know it exists? Rumour?
>It's documented but not implemented? You mean people actually *read*
>MSDN docs????
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1. There are *two* POSIX subsystems. There's one
Microsoft did with its first releases of NT.
It somehow passes requirements, so that MS is
eligible for certain US government contracts
(or equivalents), but no one uses it. NO one.
Seriously. Now that I think of it, I'm not
even sure it is compliant; it could well be
just that MS *says* it is. It's a non-issue,
because you have in effect to disable NT to get
at the POSIXness.
I'll decline this morning to give a URL for this
travesty.
2. Softway Systems <URL:http://www.interix.com> (also
is a mostly independent corporation that sells a
very nice Unix (now called Interix, originally
OpenNT) operating under NT. This is good stuff,
technically. Microsoft's relation to Interix is
far too byzantine for me to explain today.
3. Many people *pay* to read MS documents. Smart
people, well familiar with Unix, whom I respect,
do so, and then enthusiastically describe the
experience to me. While the phenomenon continues
to puzzle me, I can report multiple instances.
I'm not much opposed to any of this in principle,
but, when I've tried, the experience hasn't been
happy. All the documents I've needed have been
frustrating.
4. Ivan, I haven't yet solved the mystery of why
e-mail from you doesn't reach me. Let's try some
experiments. Please send test messages to
<claird at neosoft.com>
<cameron at lairds.com>
<claird at www.guardtower.net>
<claird at place.net>
<test4 at oneplace.com>.
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