KK>    I didn't know that. Is there a source for the POSIX
 KK>    standards, such as a website or something?

Yes. This are the most usefull I found after five minutes with 'AltaVista':

http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/P/POSIX.html http://www.opengroup.org

Btw, "POSIX" stands for "Portable Operating System
Interface". Sometimes they add "for UNIX" to that, but it's
not limited to UNIX anymore.


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