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From: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: Machine Readable ANSI C Std?
Message-ID: <143@longway.TIC.COM>
Date: 23 Mar 88 21:59:56 GMT
References: <137@longway.TIC.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <uunet!brl.arpa!gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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From: uunet!brl-smoke.ARPA!gwyn (Doug Gwyn )

In article <137@longway.TIC.COM> Russ Nelson <uunet!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson> writes:
>Is there a machine readable copy of the ANSI C standard available?
> "   "   "   "  available via anonymous ftp?

The X3J11 draft redactor has his own machine-readable (troff -mm)
copy of the draft standard, but previous requests for copies of it
have been answered with the observation that it would be an
additional burden for someone (e.g. the redactor) and that resources
have not been made available to support this.  Occasionally it is
suggested that it would be nice to do so, and we agree it might be
"nice", but it hasn't been done.  I would say it seems rather
unlikely at this point.

One argument against the idea has been that it would make it easy
for someone to crank out copies of a document that looked like the
official standard but that had deviations from it, which is deemed
undesirable.

Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 30