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Subject: Re: ANSI C Standard available for ftp?
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Date: 30 Dec 89 18:16:35 GMT
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In article <994@ux.acss.umn.edu> eric@ux.acss.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson) writes:
>Is the ANSI C Standard (complete) available for anoymous ftp?
>
>	Yours,
>		--Eric
>-- 
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Almost certainly not "legally", since ANSI (CBEMA?) policy forbids
telecom distribution of even _draft_ standards documents to
non-standards committee members.  ANSI derives a _very_ large income
from selling highly overpriced nearly illegible paper copies of
ephemeral documents.  I've beaten my head against this one repeatedly,
and it has prevented (impoverished) me from submitting comments on
FORTRAN 8X, CGM, and PHIGS standards, among others where I could have
provided expert advice to a less rapacious organization.  Individual
committee members _hate_ this [and one even photocopied and sent to me
the FORTRAN 8X dpANS (a bit late for me to use, but the thought was
sure nice, Presley!)], because they know that knowledge is not
restricted to those with corporate financial support, but the ANSI
rules leave them pretty helpless.


Again, my opinion, not the account furnishers'.

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