tuomas@kannel.lut.fi (Tuomas Lukka) (11/10/89)
Look at the header... It's got it all... tuomas@kannel.lut.fi Tuomas Lukka
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (11/11/89)
It's probably time for a quick repeat of this: most standards are not available in machine-readable form. In particular, neither IEEE nor ANSI standards are. This is partly to protect the income obtained by selling paper copies (which goes to support further standards work), and partly to make it more likely that standards will be distributed in their original, unaltered form. People hold varying opinions on the relative priorities of the two issues, but both are real concerns. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) (11/11/89)
In article <1989Nov10.180447.2353@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > neither IEEE nor ANSI standards ar [available in machine-readable form]. > [This is] partly to make it more likely that standards will be distributed > in their original, unaltered form. I note that the Ada standard is accessible in machine-readable form (and has been for years). This does not seem to have resulted in the production of altered versions of the LRM. Whether it resulted in any loss of sales I don't know; I ftped over from time to time to look at the standard while it was under revision and then bought a paper copy when it came out.
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (11/12/89)
In article <2680@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes: >> neither IEEE nor ANSI standards ar [available in machine-readable form]. >> [This is] partly to make it more likely that standards will be distributed >> in their original, unaltered form. > >I note that the Ada standard is accessible in machine-readable form (and >has been for years). This does not seem to have resulted in the production >of altered versions of the LRM... Perhaps because nobody cared about Ada? :-) There *were* such problems with some experimental distributions of early POSIX drafts, I believe. -- A bit of tolerance is worth a | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology megabyte of flaming. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu