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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: minor wording fixups for "Posix", "Unix", "DOS variants", etc. |
Date: | Tue, 12 Oct 2004 09:38:29 -0700 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Peter Eisentraut <address@hidden> writes: > Isn't the real spelling "POSIX"? Or this some UNIX-like workaround with > trademark issues? The Posix folks spell it "POSIX", just as SCO spells spells Unix "UNIX". The Autoconf manual's usage was inconsistent, but it clearly preferred "Unix" so I thought it more consistent for it to prefer "Posix" as well. "Posix" is a bit easier to read and I don't see any real possibility for confusion.
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