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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Where can I FTP the ANSI C standard?
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.165709.21612@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 16:57:09 GMT

In article <26B5BC96.4835@marob.masa.com> mikej@marob.masa.com (Michael Johnston) writes:
>Can someone tell me where (if anywhere) I might be able to get a copy of
>the ANSI C standard via FTP? Thanks.

You can't.  It is not available in machine-readable form.  The copyright
holder, ANSI, relies on sales of printed standards to support its work,
and accordingly does not make standards available in easily-copied forms.
(There have recently been some doubts raised about the copyright situation,
though, so this might change in future.)

(Steve, a note about this in the FAQ list might be a good idea.)
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