Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C Style Guide
Message-ID: <1989Jan16.082214.2689@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2657@ficc.uu.net> <5309@pdn.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 08:22:14 GMT

In article <5309@pdn.UUCP> reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) writes:
>>OK, does anyone have a copy of the Indian Hills Style Guide? ...
>
>      It was only available as a collection of Bell Labs Technical Memos (TM) 
>in 1978.  Unless it has been published somewhere along the line, it is *only*
>available to AT&T employees and under grandfather clauses to Bellcore and the
>BOCs.

In fact, several years ago I typed it in (from an Nth-generation photocopy
that reached me by obscure routes), added some commentary of my own, and
posted it to the net.  I am not sure, in retrospect, that this was a proper
thing to do, but I *did* do it, and consequently the IH style guide is
widely distributed outside AT&T.  I was never hassled over it, although
I am sufficiently unsure of the propriety of my actions that I'm not
willing to post it again.

(My uncertainty is primarily over copyright issues.  I was never an
employee of the Bell System or any of its current fragments, so there
is no non-disclosure issue for me personally, although there might be
one for somebody further up the lengthy path by which it reached me.
Things were a bit more casual in those days.)
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