CBFalconer <cb********@yahoo.comwrites:
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I have copies here of several C standards and drafts. I observe:
Identity. Pages Size Date (here)
N869.pdf 586 1.4 mB 1999-Jan
N1336.pdf 556 3.8 mB 2008-Aug
and offhand I see no reason for this large size expansion.
Comments?
Incidentally N869_txt.bz2 (bzip2 compressed) is 212k, and available
on my page. No later version has been delivered in text form.
This is the most easily handled version.
For most purposes, I personally find the pdf versions to be easier to
handle than a plain-text veresion. For example, given a modern PDF
viewer and a sufficiently large screen, I can have a complete
navigatable table of contents on the left side of the screen and the
current page on the right side.
And N869_txt.bz2 has the disadvantage that (a) it's out of date, and
(b) it's missing some formatting (particularly italics) that's
semantically significant.
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