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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 16:49:29 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: The long-awaited portability docs
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > fter a bit of fussing, here is my first shot at the portability docs.
> 
> Here are my comments to Nate's portability-related diffs.  I don't
> send them as diffs since I hope somebody else will have time to
> convert what's below to Texinfo before I find enough free time for it
> (which might not happen for quite a while ;-).
> 
>  - Didn't we agree that ANSI implies POSIX, and therefore there's no
>    need to mention both in ANSI functions?

But I think there may be cases where POSIX gives different functionality
than ANSI, such as `remove'.  Anyway, I lean toward the multitable
output format, in which case they should both be marked.

I may be able to work on adding these this weekend, but I make no
promises. :))
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com

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