Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Machine readable version of ANSI draft Message-ID: <1525@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 05:10:32 EST Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1525 Posted: Fri Dec 19 05:10:32 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 22:58:40 EST Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 20 I took my copy of the draft proposed standard down to the local Krishna Copy shop and used their Kurzweil reading machine to try reading it in. Basic result is no luck. It would get much of the text of a page, especially on the 3rd or 4th page after it had gotten used to the text, but there was no page on which it didn't make at least 10 or 20 errors. On some lines, it didn't recognize a single character, though it had read the previous line and the next line without trouble. It would be faster to retype the damn thing than to go back and try to fix the errors. I have not tried it on a Palantir scanner yet; if I get the time, I will. But it appears that technology is not going to save us from brain damaged policies in our standards bureacracy; I guess we'll have to reform the bureacracies instead, which is a lot less fun than building good technologies. -- John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa Call +1 800 854 7179 or +1 714 540 9870 and order X3.159-198x (ANSI C) for $65. Then spend two weeks reading it and weeping. THEN send in formal comments!