Who's got the pANS ?
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Sun Aug 27 07:50:37 AEST 1989
In article <143 at sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> zz1jm at sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Jon McCarty) writes:
>Hello. I really enjoy reading this group, but I don't have a
>concrete reference for ANSI C. Is there a copy of the draft
>availiable via FTP? ...
No. ANSI standards and drafts are not available in machine-readable form.
(This is partly to prevent altered versions being propagated to the
unsuspecting -- which has indeed been a problem with some such documents
in the past -- and also because ANSI supports itself partly by selling
paper copies.)
>...Or is there a good reference book
>somewhere? How about K&R vol 2? ...
K&R 2nd edition is not perfect but it is very close to the final standard.
>... I'd rather have something along
>the lines of the "C Reference Manual," ...
There is a second edition of H&S, although it's a bit older than K&R2.
I suspect there will be a third when the pANS finally becomes official.
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