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- From: pvowles@hawk.adied.oz.au (Paul Vowles)
- Subject: ISO standards [Re: (26oct92) comp.graphics FAQ]
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- Organization: Australian Defence Industries
- References: <720421504.17@freudsys.nl.mugnet>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:23:54 GMT
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- John.T..Grieggs@freudsys.nl.mugnet.org (John T. Grieggs) writes:
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- >12) How to order standards documents.
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- >The American National Standards Institute sells ANSI standards, and also
- >ISO (international) standards. Their sales office is at 1-212-642-4900,
- >mailing address is 1430 Broadway, NY NY 10018. It helps if you have the
- >complete name and number.
- >
- >Some useful numbers to know:
- >
- >CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) is ISO 8632-4 (1987). GKS (Graphical
- >Kernel System) is ANSI X3.124-1985. PHIGS (Programmer's Hierarchical
- >Interactive Graphics System) is ANSI X3.144-1988. IGES is ASME/ANSI
- >Y14.26M-1987. Language bindings are often separate but related numbers;
- >for example, the GKS FORTRAN binding is X3.124.1-1985.
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- Are any of the above ISO standards ??? If so, does anybody have the
- relavent ISO standards numbers ... thanks ....
-
- Paul
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