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: <1989Nov12.004637.6710@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1989Nov10.180447.2353@utzoo.uucp> <2680@munnari.oz.au> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 89 00:46:37 GMT In article <2680@munnari.oz.au> ok@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. -- 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