From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: HTML text of CLTL2? Date: 1995/05/22 Message-ID: <19950522T062436Z.enag@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 103027765 references: <3ojcfn$cdk@news.tuwien.ac.at> <3omo0d$r7h@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> <19950509T040103Z.enag@naggum.no> <3op2gs$gqj@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313 newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp [Mark Kantrowitz] | In article <19950509T040103Z.enag@naggum.no>, | Erik Naggum wrote: | >[Mark Kantrowitz] | > | >| I have asked ANSI about making the standard available in a similar | >| fashion. As you may be aware, ANSI sells copies of the standard to | >| cover its costs, so obviously they can't make it available for free. | > | >I thought part of the deal with ANSI was that the text should be made | >available for free. | | This is definitely not the case, according to email I received from | Lynn Barra, the coordinator for Standards Processing for X3. If anybody | has a different story FROM AN OFFICIAL SOURCE, I would like to hear | about it. I finally found the note from which I drew my conclusion. sorry to disappoint you all: all it says is that ANSI has agreed to let the draft documents be freely distributable. not a word about the final standard. # -- NETSCAPISM /net-'sca-,pi-z*m/ n (1995): habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from the realization that the Internet was built by and for someone else.