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Re: cygwin vs. MKS Toolkit
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- Subject: Re: cygwin vs. MKS Toolkit
- From: "J. J. Farrell" <jjf@bcs.org.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:49:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "McCunney, Dennis" <DMcCunney@roper.com>
>
> The MKS Toolkit never claimed to be POSIX compliant. They _did_
> try to be SysV compatible insofar as the underlying OS allowed it.
MKS do claim POSIX compliance for many of the tools individually
(all the ones I checked), and generically in the Toolkit release
notes. Their implementation is conceptually similar to the FSF's
in that they have the POSIX requirements with various extensions.
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