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- Subject: Forth FAQ Answers: Part 03 (ANS Forth Standard Info). (V1.0:01.Jan.93)
- Message-ID: <4217.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
- From: FAQ@willett.pgh.pa.us (comp.lang.forth FAQ source)
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:39:29 GMT
- Organization: EIEI-U
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- What is this dpANS and what happened to BASIS?
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- dpANS is a draft proposed Ansi National Standard. The BASIS documents
- were the internal working documents of the Forth Technical Committee
- X3.J14. Prior to this, to my knowlege, the internal working documents
- for any ANSI Technical Committees were not released to the public.
- X3.J14 broke new ground by not only making those documents available,
- but by making them available electronicly. X3.J14 has now made the
- Forth dpANS available for public review. Because this is no longer an
- internal working document, but an official ANSI document, it is not
- available except in printed form. ANSI makes its money by selling
- standards documents, and _probably_ will not allow the standard to be
- distributed in electronic form.
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- Where can I find a copy of the dpANS standard?
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- The Forth standard effort has progressed to the third dpANS stage.
- dpANS = draft proposed Ansi National Standard. The 2nd public review
- period started June 26, 1992 and ends August 25, 1992. Cost is $50 US,
- $60 overseas.
- The document X3.215.199x may be ordered from:
- Global Engineering Documents, Inc.
- 2805 McGaw Ave.
- Irvine, CA 92714
- 1 (800) 854-7179 or
- (714) 261-1455 (outside USA & Canada)
- [Info courtesy of Elizabeth Rather.]
- [I know that this is old. Updates appreciated! -dwp]
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- How can I make offical comments on dpANS?
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- You can send your dpANS related correspondence to:
- X3 Secretariat/CBEMA
- Attention: Lynn Barra
- 311 First Street N.W., Suite 500,
- Washington DC 20001-2178
- Send a copy of your comments to:
- American National Standards Institute
- Attention: BSR Center
- 11 West 42nd Street
- New York, NY 10036
- [Information copied from _Forth_Dimensions_ Volume XIII, Number 5.]
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- How can I send email to the ANS Forth Technical Committee?
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- You can also submit comments electronicly:
- For those of you worried about mail getting thru to ANSI by Feb. 25,
- I'm happy to report that it is possible to EMAIL public review
- responses. X3 has a new CompuServ account. From whatever board you're
- on, it's presumably possible to address CompuServ; having figured out
- how to do that, address your mail to:
- Lynn Barra, X3, c/o Dan Arnold, 75300,2354
- If there's not enuf address space to list both names, just use Dan &
- reference Lynn in the message. Be sure the message clearly states up
- front that it is a public review response to dpANS Forth.
- [Information supplied by Elizabeth Rather via ForthNet]
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- Their Internet address is: 75300.2354@compuserve.com
- Notice that the ',' changes to a '.' and that there is an
- 'e' at the end of compuserve.
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