Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!longway!std-unix
From: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: Machine Readable ANSI C Std?
Message-ID: <146@longway.TIC.COM>
Date: 25 Mar 88 16:24:32 GMT
References: <137@longway.TIC.COM> <143@longway.TIC.COM>
Reply-To: uunet!crdos1!davidsen (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)

From: uunet!crdos1!davidsen (William E. Davidsen Jr)

In article <143@longway.TIC.COM> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <uunet!brl.arpa!gwyn>) writes:
| [...]
| 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.

Of course it would also (a) cut the money that Global Press makes
selling the standard ($1 per page????) and would allow sites to keep it
online to improve use for it.  I would think CBEMA would want to sell
site licenses for the document.

[ What does ``to improve use for it'' mean?  -mod ]
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