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[POSIX_ME_HARDER] is an alias for the [POSIXLY_CORRECT] an environment variable that can be used for some programs, particularly those written by people exasperated by some aspect of the [POSIX] standards.
-RMS quote (from an interview with Linuxcare in 1999, no longer online?):
+RMS quote (from an interview with Linuxcare in 1999, no longer online? [archive at karmak.org | http://karmak.org/archive/2003/01/12-14-99.epl.html ]
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> To have an excuse to say that we still support the spec, if you define the environment variable, [POSIX_ME_HARDER] was the original way.
> Then a slightly prudish board member convinced me to change it to [POSIXLY_CORRECT] which I now think was a mistake.
> I should have left it as [POSIX_ME_HARDER].
