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From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
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Subject: Re: Machine readable form of K+R.
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.203054.16201@cs.yale.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 20:30:54 GMT
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In article <1991Jun4.162608.487@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1991Jun4.155924.13499@cs.yale.edu> rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
>>Does anyone out there have a machine readable form of K+R's C book?
>>Could I FTP it?
>
>K&R presumably do... but it's *not* likely to be available for FTP any
>time soon, because of this little matter known as "copyright".  Anyone
>trying to make it available for FTP is likely to get a visit from
>Prentice-Hall's lawyers.
>-- 
Well, if I remember, the book says "available in machine readable form"
What exactly does this mean if it is not available in machine readable
form. I.e. if K+R have not made it available for FTP, how IS it available
if not in paper?
-Ekr

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Yale University Department of Chemistry             rescorla@psun.chem.yale.edu
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