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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 06:33:44 -0700
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.829628741@schonberg> <4l0k0q$lll@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <dewar.829687209@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.829687209@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
-
- >In the case of the Ada standard, we just insisted to ISO that the standard
- >must be freely available. It was a hard sell, but being insistent can pay
- >off!
-
- What do you suppose would happen if some anonymous individual took an ISO
- document (like say the C standard, 9899), banged off the requisite TeX or
- troff code to clone it and then freely distributed it all over the place?
- --
- I'm not really a jerk, but I play one on Usenet.
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