From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fef2a40177b882e8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-07 11:00:01 PST Path: swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!PSAVAX.PWFL.COM!CONDIC Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 13:55:14 EST Sender: Ada programming language From: CONDIC@PSAVAX.PWFL.COM Subject: Re: 2167A, 498, commercial and mil standards... Date: 1995-02-07T13:55:14-05:00 List-Id: From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 Subject: Re: 2167A, 498, commercial and mil standards... Original_To: PROFS%"SMTP@PWAGPDB" Original_cc: CONDIC DEAN RUNZEL writes: > >I guess the meat of this post is : stop whining and waiting for the gov't. >to spoon feed us. To paraphrase John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your gov't. can >do for you, but what you can do to help your gov't. and others. > I don't exactly know as we were "whining" but given that you are probably in the same situation as many of us (doing more with less) I can see how you might get to feel this way. I think my original point about this was that getting the documents via FTP would be a heck of a lot easier/cheaper/faster than the traditional routes of requesting them from our Tech Pubs department or librarian. (not to mention that you get a clean copy instead of an Nth generation xerox!) I can't imagine that even the government could be so far behind the times that most standards wouldn't be in some kind of machine readable form. Once you've got it in a word processor format, it seems to me to be a near trivial task to do an FTP and put it on a public site. (Oops! I forgot about needing to form up a committee, do a feasability study, write up a report, get official sanction, etc., etc. Things aren't any different here! ;-) I like the idea of putting them out on wuarchive. Pax, Marin Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 407.796.8997 M/S 731-93 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM P.O. Box 109600 Internet: MDCONDIC@AOL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 =============================================================================== "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957. ===============================================================================