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Subject:	Re: cygwin vs. MKS Toolkit
To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com (Cygwin Mailing List)
Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:49:06 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To:	<65CAA822B707D211AD430008C7F40FED748456@EXCHANGERSW2> from "McCunney, Dennis" at Aug 20, 99 05:50:12 pm
From:	"J. J. Farrell" <jjf AT bcs DOT org DOT uk>
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> From: "McCunney, Dennis" <DMcCunney AT roper DOT 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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