Machine Readable ANSI C Std?
Moderator, John S. Quarterman
std-unix at longway.TIC.COM
Sat Mar 26 02:24:32 AEST 1988
From: uunet!crdos1!davidsen (William E. Davidsen Jr)
In article <143 at longway.TIC.COM> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <uunet!brl.arpa!gwyn>) writes:
| [...]
| One argument against the idea has been that it would make it easy
| for someone to crank out copies of a document that looked like the
| official standard but that had deviations from it, which is deemed
| undesirable.
Of course it would also (a) cut the money that Global Press makes
selling the standard ($1 per page????) and would allow sites to keep it
online to improve use for it. I would think CBEMA would want to sell
site licenses for the document.
[ What does ``to improve use for it'' mean? -mod ]
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bill davidsen (wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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