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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: typedef names in parameter lists
Message-ID: <1641@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 89 19:43:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: crdos1.1641
References: <24050@cup.portal.com> <11603@smoke.BRL.MIL> <449@cpsolv.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <449@cpsolv.UUCP> rhg@cpsolv.uucp (Richard H. Gumpertz) writes:

| This text that Doug cites was added sometime between January 1988 and
| December 1988.  If you missed it, it is probably because you have an old
| draft.  I only got around to getting an up-to-date copy last week (sigh). 
| 
| The high cost of the drafts has really hurt -- many people tend to work
| from obsolete documents. 

  So has the delay getting the new documents. I have not checked with
Global to see if they scrap the old version when the new one comes out,
but I did see an old version which was obtained from some vendor within
then last few months.
| 
| I think DARPA did quite well by making the Internet standards (RFCs)
| available for "free" (i.e.  subsidized indirectly as art of operating
| the Internet and the NIC) so that nobody would have any excuse for
| working from obsolete documents.  Too bad ANSI can't find a better
| source of funds and so has to keep such tight control over its
| documents. 

  Well said. And there would probably be enhanced indices available for
it, and people other than the committee would be able to grep for
non-indexed references or supporting material, etc. They could certainly
license the rights to an online copy for a fat fee and no permission to
hardcopy. I won't claim that online documentation never gets made into
hardcopy, but it's not very common.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon