Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ANSI C Standard online?
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.165405.13140@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1028@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 90 16:54:05 GMT

In article <1028@manta.NOSC.MIL> psm@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Scot Mcintosh) writes:
>Does the ANSI C standard exist at an ftp site?

Sigh, this one belongs in our (nonexistent) Frequently Asked Questions list.

ANSI standards are not available in machine-readable form.  This is not
stupidity or backwardness, but a deliberate policy decision.  The major
reasons are (a) concern about mutated versions, and (b) concern about
loss of revenue (sales of standards are the main source of financing
for ANSI).
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