From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: try-this-for ? Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:11:12 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86inbz5pun.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86lggw6vtn.fsf@zoho.com> <86d1277u37.fsf@zoho.com> <86r2qn5qby.fsf@zoho.com> <86mv1b5q6x.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516277633 14793 195.159.176.226 (18 Jan 2018 12:13:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:13:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 18 13:13:48 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ec94f-0003Cs-1W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:13:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ec96f-0000Sh-44 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 07:15:45 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RMbEMVYpmxYCWGZty0QroJXntkI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221656 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115773 Archived-At: > POSIX If you didn't know it, "Portable Operating System Interface", ~1985. The X is for Unix and the acronym was suggested by Richard Stallman. The former designation was IEEE-IX so no wonder they dropped it :) One has to wonder about the "P" tho as it seems portability is sort of the reason for any standard - if it isn't portable, it isn't a standard but a manual, right? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573