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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: NewLine, LineFeed (was Re: Distinguished pointers (was Re:
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 18:33:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 18:33:32 1987
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In article <1492@cullvax.UUCP> drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
>I believe that all standards are, in fact, without copyright (you can
>check in the front).  If this is true, you can just go to a library
>and xerox(*) yourself a copy.

This is false.  I just pulled out my copy of X3.4-1977, and on page 2
it says:

	Copyright (c) 1977 by American National Standards Institute, Inc
	All rights reserved.

	No part of this document may be reproduced in any form, in an
	electronic retrieval system or otherwise, without the prior
	written permission of the publisher.

I also recall a discussion in X3J13 (Common Lisp) regarding allowing
Lisp system vendors to use the standard in their online documentation.
Our chairman says that it may be difficult to get ANSI to agree to
this.  ANSI is primarily a publishing house, so they have little
incentive to allow vendors to make it easy to circumvent them.

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Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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