Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI C Standard available for ftp?
Message-ID: <1989Dec31.010420.1997@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <994@ux.acss.umn.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 89 01:04:20 GMT
Expires: 30 March 1990

In article <994@ux.acss.umn.edu> eric@ux.acss.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson) writes:
>Is the ANSI C Standard (complete) available for anoymous ftp?

(Whatever happened to our frequently-asked-questions list effort?)

No.  It is not available in machine-readable form at all.  This is partly
because sale of printed copies is a major source of funding for standards
work, and partly because there is real concern about mutated copies being
distributed as authentic.  (Opinions vary on the relative significance of
these two issues, but both are real reasons.)
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