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- From: drcc@chuma.ec.usf.edu. (David Cabana (MTH))
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: Where I can find IEEE P1178 standard?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.124440.28485@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 12:44:40 GMT
- References: <SOKOLSKY.93Jan19220354@walt.cs.msstate.edu> <C1732H.8BB@dei.unipd.it> <1993Jan21.113805.3467@news.cs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.113805.3467@news.cs.indiana.edu> chaynes@cs.indiana.edu (Chris Haynes) writes:
- >In article <C1732H.8BB@dei.unipd.it> gandalf@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (ROBERTO AVANZI) writes:
- >>I believe you can FTP a draft of the [IEEE standard]
- >>from nexus.yorku.ca, or from
- >>some other scheme repository. It is not the final text (it is called p1178d4)
- >>but it's very close, and I've been told there's almost no difference.
- >>Hope this helps
- >>Roberto
- >
- >IEEE (like other standards organizations) explicitely proscribes the
- >distribution of standard drafts, electronically or otherwise, after
- >publication of the standard. This keeps folks from believing they have the
- >standard when they don't.
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- I think IEEE could come up with a checksum or some other method of
- digital authentication if they chose to. They just want some of your
- money before letting you have a copy of the standard.
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