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- From: uunet!brl-smoke.ARPA!gwyn (Doug Gwyn )
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- In article <137@longway.TIC.COM> Russ Nelson <uunet!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson> writes:
- >Is there a machine readable copy of the ANSI C standard available?
- > " " " " available via anonymous ftp?
-
- The X3J11 draft redactor has his own machine-readable (troff -mm)
- copy of the draft standard, but previous requests for copies of it
- have been answered with the observation that it would be an
- additional burden for someone (e.g. the redactor) and that resources
- have not been made available to support this. Occasionally it is
- suggested that it would be nice to do so, and we agree it might be
- "nice", but it hasn't been done. I would say it seems rather
- unlikely at this point.
-
- One argument against the idea has been that it would make it easy
- for someone to crank out copies of a document that looked like the
- official standard but that had deviations from it, which is deemed
- undesirable.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 30
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