ANSI standard available online anywhere?

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Thu Apr 18 02:54:05 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr16.213355.7369 at agate.berkeley.edu> vojta at powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) writes:
>Does anybody know if the text of the ANSI C standard is available via
>anonymous ftp from anywhere?

It isn't.  ANSI supports its standards work by selling copies of finished
standards, and consequently doesn't supply them free.

(There has been some debate about the precise copyright status of standards
of late, but the above is an accurate statement of the situation at present.)
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry at zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry



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