Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Who's got the pANS ?
Message-ID: <1989Aug26.215037.24287@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <143@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 89 21:50:37 GMT

In article <143@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> zz1jm@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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