zz1jm@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Jon McCarty) (08/26/89)
Hello. I really enjoy reading this group, but I don't have a concrete reference for ANSI C. Is there a copy of the draft availiable via FTP? The local engineering library has all the ANSI standards here, but no drafts. Or is there a good reference book somewhere? How about K&R vol 2? I'd rather have something along the lines of the "C Reference Manual," and I suppose I'd rather have it for free (crummy students are so cheap). ----Jon ----Internet: zz1jm@sdcc10.ucsd.edu ----one of these days I've got to get myself a real handle P.S. I tried uunet.uu.net but I guess C is too old to be there?
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (08/27/89)
In article <143@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> zz1jm@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Jon McCarty) writes: >Hello. I really enjoy reading this group, but I don't have a >concrete reference for ANSI C. Is there a copy of the draft >availiable via FTP? ... No. ANSI standards and drafts are not available in machine-readable form. (This is partly to prevent altered versions being propagated to the unsuspecting -- which has indeed been a problem with some such documents in the past -- and also because ANSI supports itself partly by selling paper copies.) >...Or is there a good reference book >somewhere? How about K&R vol 2? ... K&R 2nd edition is not perfect but it is very close to the final standard. >... I'd rather have something along >the lines of the "C Reference Manual," ... There is a second edition of H&S, although it's a bit older than K&R2. I suspect there will be a third when the pANS finally becomes official. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu