Re: Ask for the "several interpretations of the ISO POSIX-2:1993" for bc utility in UNIX03 standard

[Bo Xie <yyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Mr.Andrew Josey,

        Thank you very much for your advice! Now I know this kind of
question is not suitable for this maillist. Anyway, I find Solaris 10
"/usr/xpg6/bin/bc -l scale(a(0))" get the same result with aix 5.3
(the result is 20 according to PASC 1003.2-92 #96).

        Thank you very much for your patience and kindness!

Best Regards,
Xie Bo

On 6/22/05, Andrew Josey <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry I do not give advice on conforming behavior interpretations.
> In general you need to contact specific suppliers for
> such questions.
> 
> Some things you could consider:
> Firstly check that you are using a conforming utility, some
> operating systems have multiple versions of the utilities
> or other setup required. Check the conformance statements
> for the products for any other setup that might be required
> for a conforming environment.
> You can find the Commands and Utilities conformance statements
> for UNIX 03 at
> 
>http://www.opengroup.org/csq/public/search.mhtml?t=CX1&w=&sort=bycomponent&display=short&pid=11308
> 
> Note that the toplevel UNIX 03 conformance statement (that
> links to the subsidiary conformance statements) for Solaris 10 is due to
> be published on that site soon.
> 
> regards
> Andrew
> 
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