Draft releases

[Barry Margolin]

In article <26954 at watmath.waterloo.edu> gjditchfield at watmsg.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield) writes:
>In article <705 at lilink.UUCP> aladdin at lilink.UUCP (Eugene Choi) writes:
>>... I assume at some point, the X3J11 releases its C standards draft
>>onto this net.
>In article <10355 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>I don't know why you assume that.  I think it is highly unlikely.
>Well, why not?  Is it "too big to post"?  Does the draft only exist in
>non-machine readable form?  Or is it a secret? :-)

Because the publisher, who makes money by selling it, has the
exclusive distribution rights.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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