Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI standard available online anywhere?
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.165405.1389@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 16:54:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.213355.7369@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr16.213355.7369@agate.berkeley.edu> vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes:
>Does anybody know if the text of the ANSI C standard is available via
>anonymous ftp from anywhere?

It isn't.  ANSI supports its standards work by selling copies of finished
standards, and consequently doesn't supply them free.

(There has been some debate about the precise copyright status of standards
of late, but the above is an accurate statement of the situation at present.)
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