At 03:08 PM 9/6/98 -0700, Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. wrote: > The simplest >way for the Government to control Microsoft is to require standardized >bindings such as POSIX and the bindings to the hardware vendors' part of >device drivers be made public. Been there done that, and it doesn't seem to help. Officially Windows NT has a POSIX compliant subsystem, so it complies to the POSIX mandate. In practice the POSIX subsystem is totally unusable and unused. Robert I. Eachus with Standard_Disclaimer; use Standard_Disclaimer; function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...