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From: tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C Standard available for ftp?
Message-ID: <0000007@ki4pv.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 89 13:24:40 GMT
References: <994@ux.acss.umn.edu> <10241@zodiac.ADS.COM> <1989Dec31.011707.2155@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: tanner@cdis-1.UUCP (Dr. T. Andrews)
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) It is worth noting that (a) becoming a committee member costs on the
) order of $100 a year ...  The fees are not exorbitant for the amount
) of paper you get.
This is true, but misses the point.  The point is that ANSI is not
so much providing a standards service as a purveyor of huge masses of
expensive and often poorly-printed paper.

This hardly seems to me to be the way to have their standard propagated.
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