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From: Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: RE: ANSI C and POSIX
Date: 1996/04/19
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references: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.829628741@schonberg>
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newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
Date: 1996-04-19T04:17:30-05:00
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On Wednesday, April 17, 1996, Kazimir Kylheku wrote...
> In article <dewar.829687209@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu>
wrote:
> 
>  >In the case of the Ada standard, we just insisted to ISO that the
standard
>  >must be freely available. It was a hard sell, but being insistent can
pay
>  >off!
> 
> What do you suppose would happen if some anonymous individual took an
ISO
> document (like say the C standard, 9899), banged off the requisite TeX
or
> troff code to clone it and then freely distributed it all over the
place?
> -- 
> I'm not really a jerk, but I play one on Usenet.
>
You can get 9899 for 30 bucks at a bookstore. Herbert Schildt wrote an
annotated version, much more readable than the standard alone. And $30 is
cheap for computer books.

And I'm sure your suggestion has already been done.