Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: signed/unsigned char/short/int/long
Message-ID: <1988Dec12.172658.29898@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <264@aber-cs.UUCP> <8982@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8983@smoke.BRL.MIL> <277@aber-cs.UUCP> <225@twwells.uucp> <330@aber-cs.UUCP> <9086@smoke.BRL.MIL> <347@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 88 17:26:58 GMT

In article <347@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>... I have just apologized saying that my inaccuracy was to imply
>that near and far eventually made it into dpANS.  I acknowledge that they did
>not make it there, still at one time (fairly long ago) they were considered
>to be going to be part of ANSI C...

I think you were misled by sleazy advertising; as far as I know, this was
never intended or even seriously considered.  Claims to the contrary should
be justified with references, please.
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