vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) (04/17/91)
The subject line says it all: Does anybody know if the text of the ANSI C standard is available via anonymous ftp from anywhere? --Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr16.213355.7369@agate.berkeley.edu> vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes: >Does anybody know if the text of the ANSI C standard is available via >anonymous ftp from anywhere? It isn't. ANSI supports its standards work by selling copies of finished standards, and consequently doesn't supply them free. (There has been some debate about the precise copyright status of standards of late, but the above is an accurate statement of the situation at present.) -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry