[comp.lang.c] suggestion

djr@ward.UUCP (Daniel Reiner) (06/22/87)

There seems to be (every once in a while) some disagreement as to what is
actually in the bible (K & R, "The C Programming Language").  For instance,
the latest issue is the 'asm' statement.

My question/suggestion: Is there a public-domain, on-line copy of this 
document anywhere?  Well there should be!!!  That way, everybody can just
grep through it until they find every occurrence, every single mention,
of what they need to know.

O' course, something like this would probably violate copyright laws or 
whatever.  But, it's a thought.

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henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (07/06/87)

> My question/suggestion: Is there a public-domain, on-line copy of this 
> document [K&R] anywhere?  Well there should be!!!

Alas, it's copyrighted.  The copyright situation is such that it wasn't
even included in machine-readable form in the later versions of Unix (boo!).

> That way, everybody can
> just grep through it until they find every occurrence, every single mention,
> of what they need to know.

Alas, this does not suffice in the general case, due to things like variant
wordings.
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