ANSI C-standard anywhere on the net? Please answer soon.

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Sat Nov 11 05:04:47 AEST 1989


It's probably time for a quick repeat of this:  most standards are not
available in machine-readable form.  In particular, neither IEEE nor
ANSI standards are.  This is partly to protect the income obtained by
selling paper copies (which goes to support further standards work),
and partly to make it more likely that standards will be distributed
in their original, unaltered form.  People hold varying opinions on
the relative priorities of the two issues, but both are real concerns.
-- 
A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
megabyte of flaming.           | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry at zoo.toronto.edu



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