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- x3j14/READMEd6.txt
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- From: Elizabeth Rather (X3J14 TC Chair)
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 02:37:00 BST
- Subject: Notice
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-
- X3J14, the Technical Committee for ANS FORTH met June 28-30
- to consider six comments from the third public review, as
- well as proposals from within and outside the TC.
- As no substantive changes were made to the draft following
- this public review period, the document will be forwarded to
- X3 for final processing toward an ANS. If all proceeds as
- expected, the final document will be available for purchase
- some time in 1994.
-
- An interim draft will be published electronically in about
- two weeks for a 30-day informal review to allow reporting of
- typographical and other minor editorial mistakes. This draft
- may be found on Internet at ftp.uu.net:/vendor/minerva/x3j14
- (see READMEd6.txt) and re-posted as anyone sees fit. Typos
- should be reported as soon as possible directly to the
- Document Editor via X3J14-typos@Minerva.com.
-
- It has taken 5 years 11 months; 22 meetings; and 1543
- proposals to reach this point. The total number of work-
- hours -- in and between meetings, for TC members and the many
- non-members who contributed -- is incalculable. We hope and
- believe we have produced a standard that can be supported
- widely among Forth implementors and users.
-
- We thank the many people who have contributed to this
- achievement.
-
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- From: Elizabeth Rather (X3J14 TC Chair)
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 02:37:00 BST
- Subject: Proofreading Instructions
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-
- X3J14 is posting dpANS6 for a 30-day informal review to allow
- typos and other non-technical errors to be corrected before
- the final text is submitted to X3 for final processing to
- become ANS Forth. This review period will expire 8/20/93.
-
- You are welcome to acquire the document for the purpose of
- scanning for errors. You are also welcome to re-post or
- distribute the file, accompanied by this READ-ME text, on any
- board or to anyone that might be helpful in this review.
-
- If you find any errors, please report them directly to our
- Document Editor, at x3j14-typos@Minerva.com. This is not a
- formal Public Review Period; please do not submit comments to
- X3 or ANSI. Also, the TC does not plan to meet again prior
- to final processing of this document; unless you report a
- major technical flaw that has escaped our prior screenings,
- any comments or proposals of a technical nature will be
- deferred until revisions to the ANS are considered in
- approximately four years.
-
- Following this informal review, the document will go under
- the control of X3 and ANSI. It will be published by ANSI,
- and will be available for purchase from Global Engineering
- Documents some time in 1994.
-
- Requests for interpretation of this document may be directed
- to the TC; requests for interpretation of the published ANS
- should be directed to ANSI, who will pass them to the TC. A
- mechanism will be set up within the TC to handle such
- requests during the next few years.
-
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-
- The dpans6 document is posted in the following forms on the
- server ftp.uu.net in /vendor/minerva/x3j14:
-
- filename structure
-
- dpans6ps.zip PostScript, archived/compressed with ZIP
- dpans6.tar.Z PostScript, archived with tar, compressed with "compress"
-
- The contents of these two archives are identical. Each consists of
- several PostScript files together constituting the entire document.
-
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-
- Thanks for your help.
-