ANSI C Standard available for ftp?

[Mike Haertel]

In article <1990Jan2.163217.24888 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>ANSI's primary function is to get good standards developed.  Publication
>of the results is a side issue, albeit an important one, and prices are
>high because somebody has to pay for the development overhead.

Probably another reason prices are high is that all too few people
actually obtain copies of the standards.  So newsgroups like this
are inundated with questions like "What does the standard say
about X?" and lies like "The standard says Y" from people who have
never even seen the standard.  The former is perhaps more forgivable,
but . . . *hint* *hint*

A friend of mine is employed by a company (that will remain nameless)
to implement various network protocols (in C) for PCs.  When he told
his some of his coworkers (also C programmers) that he was ordering a
copy of the proposed ANSI standard, they said, "The what?"  Sad . . .
-- 
Mike Haertel <mike at ai.mit.edu>
"Of course, we have to keep in mind that this year's Killer Micro
 is next year's Lawn Sprinkler Controller . . ." -- Eugene Brooks