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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Draft releases
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Date: 6 Jun 89 18:34:56 GMT
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In article <26954@watmath.waterloo.edu> gjditchfield@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield) writes:
>In article <705@lilink.UUCP> aladdin@lilink.UUCP (Eugene Choi) writes:
>>... I assume at some point, the X3J11 releases its C standards draft
>>onto this net.
>In article <10355@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>I don't know why you assume that.  I think it is highly unlikely.
>Well, why not?  Is it "too big to post"?  Does the draft only exist in
>non-machine readable form?  Or is it a secret? :-)

Because the publisher, who makes money by selling it, has the
exclusive distribution rights.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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