Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA From: cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: ANSI C Draft Message-ID: <1347@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 20:44:02 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1347 Posted: Wed Feb 26 20:44:02 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Mar-86 19:34:40 EST Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 47 /* I tried to mail this to mod.std.c, but I forgot their address, and both permutations I tried didn't work, so here it is worldwide! To The Authorities: Here is a message I received about my posting on the ANSI C Draft. Please give it due consideration: Return-Path: Received: from SRI-NIC.ARPA by NBS-VMS.ARPA ; 23 Feb 86 19:27:27 EST Date: Fri 21 Feb 86 15:03:34-PST From: Ken Harrenstien Subject: ANSI C Draft To: cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA cc: KLH@SRI-NIC.ARPA In-Reply-To: Message from ""COTTRELL, JAMES" " of Thu 6 Feb 86 14:34:00-PST Message-ID: <12185229280.26.KLH@SRI-NIC.ARPA> I noticed your message about the ANSI C standard draft. I don't know who you were replying to, as I don't follow INFO-C all of the time (most of it is irrelevant). However, I can say that the NIC would be happy to make any such on-line documents available to the Internet community at large, just as we do for RFCs. We also have OCR hardware for scanning paper documents to convert them into on-line form, and could readily do this for the ANSI C standard drafts if they are not too complex graphically. All that is needed is agreement. I share your feelings about the absurdity of asking for comments in an electronic medium about a document that presumably is also created electronically, and then refusing to provide it in any form other than hard-copy. A handling charge for paper is understandable (even the NIC now does this) but the cost and the way they have set things up makes them look pretty bad. If you can give me the appropriate address or phone number of someone to contact, we will try to arrange something. --Ken ------- Yours Truly, jim cottrell@nbs */ ------