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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: ANSI C document required (FAX or e-mail)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.161622.23343@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Nov5.160735.2513@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> <1e89stINNbvk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:16:22 GMT
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- In <1e89stINNbvk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah739@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Leslie J. Somos) writes:
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- >In a previous article, broglia@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (marco broglia) says:
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- >>
- >>We are researchers of the Computer Science Department, University of
- >>Milan (Italy), and we're interested in getting a copy of the Standard
- >>document about ANSI C (maybe X3.159-1989 from last FAQ).
- >>Our problem is that we're looking for a fax number or e-mail address on
- >>which ask for detailed info about this.
- >>Thanks in advance and
- >> Best regards.
- >>
- >>/*
- >> * Marco Broglia broglia@mars.usr.dsi.unimi.it
- >> * Stefano Gobbo gobbo@ipmel2.elet.polimi.it
- >> */
- >>
-
- >Read the group comp.std.c
-
- >From what I remember, what you are asking for is not
- >available electronically, because it costs money ( ~$50 ).
- >You have to contact ANSI directly (in New York City).
- >(But don't wait too long. I understand that the next
- >version from ANSI will be 'synchronized' with the ISO
- >standard, meaning mostly that it will omit the
- >commentary giving the reasons behind everything.)
-
- Let me see if I have this straight. ANSI is going to DEGRADE the
- current version of the standard to get a version that is
- 'synchronized' with how ISO does things? Do they have any plans on
- publishing a separate Rationale document or something so that people
- who are interested in 'why' don't lose all that information? Do they
- plan on dropping the price, since the document will contain a subset
- of the current information in the document?
-
- --
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