Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:39:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Farhan Yousaf <farhany AT interlog DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Terms?
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960919143021.006f6fe4@mail.interlog.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960919173723.4800C-100000@is>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII


On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Farhan Yousaf wrote:

> Being a relative newcomer to Unix and DJGPP, may I ask what the following
> terms mean?
> 
>  - POSIX

A standard for Unix-like operating systems, which describes the 
utilities, the header files and the library functions which should be 
available on POSIX-compliant systems.

>  - Emacs

This is the name of a (very powerful) programmer's editor.