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From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Perhaps it's time the C community *did* something about bad books.
Date: 30 Jan 1996 18:15:16 -0600
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In article <4eardg$[e-mail]>,
Bill McCarthy <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>> I call your attention to Schildt's "C: The Complete Reference".  A
>>> There is a long crit of this book, with many errors listed, at:
>>> http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/tutorial/ten-commandments/schildt.html
>> That is Clive Feather's review of "The Annotated ANSI C Standard",
>> also by Schildt, not of "C: The Complete Reference".
> I saw Feather's review.  I'm looking for a copy of the standard.  It's
> quoted here quite a bit, but I don't want to pay hundreds for it from
> the only legal source.  I read that Schildt's "The Annotated ANSI C
> Standard" contains nearly the entire standard, word for word.

Unfortunately, the "nearly" does not only mean the missing page of the
Standard that's been mentioned, but also at least one significant dot.

[The publisher claims the printer did the missing page.  If anyone
 mails me ([e-mail]) the missing dot, I'll let them know. -mod]

[I mean tell me where it is; my ASCII 0x2e key works fine.]

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Clive D.W. Feather                       | If you lie to the compiler,
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