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From: randy@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Randy Orrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: WHO writes the standards???
Summary: no, it's not ANSII, sorry
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Date: 7 Oct 88 02:41:26 GMT
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In some article ggs@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Griff Smith) writes:
|In some article steve@umigw.MIAMI.EDU (steve emmerson) writes:
|> In ANSII-C you could even have the macro append the newline.
|If I remember correctly, I can avoid the formatting problem completely
|in ANSII C and avoid silly macros:

Once, I let slip... but twice in a row needs attention.

Folks, it's ANSI.  I think it stands for American National Standards
Institute.  Only one I.

Don't confuse it with ASCII - Americal Standard Code for Information
Interchange (yes, that's the letter I twice there, not a roman numeral
II).

	-randy

[Don't followup to this article unless I've made a mistake in my
expansion of the abbreviations, and then only if your name is Doug
Gywn (picked at random from a list of people who will get it right)]
--
Randy Orrison, Chemical Computer Thinking Battery  --  randy@cctb.mn.org
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