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

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Sun Nov 12 11:46:37 AEST 1989


In article <2680 at munnari.oz.au> ok at cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>> neither IEEE nor ANSI standards ar [available in machine-readable form].
>> [This is] partly to make it more likely that standards will be distributed
>> in their original, unaltered form.
>
>I note that the Ada standard is accessible in machine-readable form (and
>has been for years).  This does not seem to have resulted in the production
>of altered versions of the LRM...

Perhaps because nobody cared about Ada? :-)  There *were* such problems
with some experimental distributions of early POSIX drafts, I believe.
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