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Article #1134Re: Machine Readable ANSI C Std?
From: Moderator, John S. Quarterman
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 16:24
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 16:24
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From: uunet!crdos1!davidsen (William E. Davidsen Jr)
In article <143@longway.TIC.COM> gwyn@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@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!longway!std-unix From: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: Machine Readable ANSI C Std? Message-ID: <146@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 25 Mar 88 16:24:32 GMT References: <137@longway.TIC.COM> <143@longway.TIC.COM> Reply-To: uunet!crdos1!davidsen (bill davidsen) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 21 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)