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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C Standard online?
Message-ID: <130@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 90 23:51:47 GMT
References: <1028@manta.NOSC.MIL> <1990Mar9.165405.13140@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1990Mar9.165405.13140@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> 
> 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).
> -- 
This brings up 2 questions:
   1) What is the address to write to ANSI
   2) How much do they charge for the ANSI C standard?

> MSDOS, abbrev:  Maybe SomeDay |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
> an Operating System.          | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

COBOL == Corny Old Businessman's Obsolete Language  ;)

		Dave