From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANN] Announcing PW32 - the DJGPP 'port' to Win32
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 21:44:24 +0000
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 08:38:02 -0500, Rodeo Red <rodeored AT netstep DOT net>
> wrote:
> 
> >Could someone please translate this into Newbie ?
> 
> It's a port of DJGPP libc to MinGW that fills in a gap called POSIX.

libc is the C library. MinGW is a port of the GNU tools to 32-bit Windows
platforms - "minimalist GNU for Windows", or something similar I think.
POSIX is a standard for programming interfaces by ISO (IIRC). Many Unix
systems provide POSIX-compatible interfaces. Another standard for Unices
is Unix98, which can be found at http://www.unix-systems.org/ . I see from
this website that there will be an attempt to merge the POSIX and Unix98
standards sometime. BTW you can download the Unix98 standard for free,
whereas you have to purchase POSIX from ISO.

I hope that helps a bit. Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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