Do we need a weekly posting? (Was Re: Is it time for comp.lang.c.dos?)

[Raymond Chen]

In article <+1V2VOAxds13 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>We need a periodic posting for comp.lang.c, I fear.

Since I already have a lot of the machinery up and running for the Frequently
Asked Questions for comp.sys.ibm.pc, I figure I'll put my head on the chopping
block once again and volunteer to collect submissions to a periodic posting
for comp.lang.c.

How to send your submission:

In a piece of email, write a question and an answer.  That simple.

Your question/answer pair will be included verbatim; I WILL NOT edit it at all.
Not having served on the ANSI committee, nor having memorized the ANSI 
standard, I don't feel qualified to compose answers.  

The sentence "This answer provided by Your Name (your at email.address)" will
be appended to your answer, unless you specifically request otherwise.

Guidelines:

Answers to questions about the C language itself should address both
ANSI-compatibility concerns and generic compatibility concerns.  So
sentences like "ANSI requires XXX, but older compilers might not do it
that way" or "This has always been true; it is not a new feature of
ANSI" should be attached.

Book recommendations should come with full bibliographical information,
including title, author, publisher, publisher's address, and year of
publication.  A price and ISBN number would be nice, but aren't required.

Survey:

Even if you aren't submitting a question/answer, you can cast your vote
for one of the following:

	[1] File posted in its entirety every week.
	[2] File posted in its entirety every month.
	[3] File posted in its entirety every month, and the table
	    of contents (and instructions on how to get the entire file)
	    posted every week.
	[4] Other periodicity.
	[5] We don't need a periodic frequently-asked questions file.

If category [5] gets the most votes, I won't make a frequently-asked questions
file.  Don't just say "I vote for number 2"; say "I vote to post the file
every month", since I try not to memorize magic numbers.  
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raymond at math.berkeley.edu     Maintainer of the csip Frequently Asked Questions