Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: ANSI C-standard anywhere on the net? Please answer soon. Message-ID: <1989Nov10.180447.2353@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Fri, 10 Nov 89 18:04:47 GMT 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@zoo.toronto.edu