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diff --git a/public/posix-pricing.html b/public/posix-pricing.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..47a82b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/posix-pricing.html @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <title>POSIX pricing and availability; or: Do you really need the PDF? — Luke Shumaker</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/style.css"> + <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="./index.atom" name="web log entries"/> +</head> +<body> +<header><a href="/">Luke Shumaker</a> » <a href=/blog>blog</a> » posix-pricing</header> +<article> +<h1 id="posix-pricing-and-availability-or-do-you-really-need-the-pdf">POSIX pricing and availability; or: Do you really need the PDF?</h1> +<p>The Open Group and IEEE are weird about POSIX pricing. They’re protective of the PDF, making you pay <a href="http://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/1003.1-2008.html">hundreds of dollars</a> for the PDF; but will happily post an HTML version for free both <a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/">online</a>, and (with free account creation) download as a <a href="https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/catalog/t101">a .zip</a>.</p> +<p>They also offer a special license to the “Linux man-pages” project, allowing them to <a href="https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix/">distribute</a> the man page portions of POSIX (most of it is written as a series of man pages) for free; so on a GNU/Linux box, you probably have most of POSIX already downloaded in manual sections 0p, 1p, and 3p.</p> +<p>Anyway, the only thing you aren’t getting with the free HTML version is a line number next to every line of text. It’s generated from the same troff sources. So, in an article or in a discussion, I’m not cheating you out of specification details by citing the webpage.</p> +<p>If you’re concerned that you’re looking at the correct version of the webpage or man pages, the current version (as of February 2018) of POSIX is “POSIX-2008, 2016 edition.”</p> + +</article> +<footer> +<p>The content of this page is Copyright © 2018 <a href="mailto:lukeshu@sbcglobal.net">Luke Shumaker</a>.</p> +<p>This page is licensed under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA-3.0</a> license.</p> +</footer> +</body> +</html> |