On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:35:32PM -0500, Andrew Pham wrote: > Since we received different pointers as to which standard to take as the > base reference, at different stages of our > 'documenting-included-interfaces' endeavor ; we would like to post the > exact order in which we look up stuffs. First, to make sure that we are > going down the right path; and second, so that anyone who has any other > suggestion/feedback; please lets us know. > > ORDER OF PRECIDENCE and LOOK-UP for a BASE-REFERENCE : > ( for reference and compare) > > 1) ISO-C99 (pay preview) > 2)SUSv3 www.opengroup.org/austin/ > 3)SUSv2 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xshix.html > 4)SUS-XSH -XCU -XBD -XCURSES -XNS > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xnsix.html > > Where we found GNU upstream man pages : > (for compare and copy) > > ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/ maintained by > Andries.Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > > Where we found 4.4BSD-lite man pages : > (for copy only) > > http://www.BSDI.COM/bsdi-man > Might I suggest another valuable source... http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi
OpenBSD manpages tend to cover most items when I can't locate one on my Debian/Linux box. Gordon Sadler
