From -4985382472634433796 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,dc3155bb51fdb610 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: blargg@flash.net (Gargantua Blargg) Subject: Re: FDIS vs. the Standard Date: 1999/01/17 Message-ID: <199901150201.UAA18700@centurion.flash.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 433508259 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <3.0.5.32.19990113220921.0154d2e0@mail.teleport.com> X-Original-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:04:25 -0600 X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 916538859 9098 128.250.29.16 (17 Jan 1999 02:07:39 GMT) Organization: Gargantua Blargg Worshippers X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUANqFF1OEDnX0m9pzZAQGCaAF+PrEBzB497sNMs9rEJA4fNmnqNVsFUYZ9 KssXa9P7OoL/czBWKMxddZHfV0NzLYCV =ocK1 NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jan 1999 02:07:39 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ (this was in another thread, but I felt it was more relevant in this thread) In article <36a3163d.11117235@smtp.reichardt.ch>, daniel@reichardt.ch (Daniel Hartmeier) wrote: > On 12 Jan 1999 06:41:56 GMT, blargg@flash.net (Gargantua Blargg) wrote: > > > (sorry, I don't have the final standard because the ANSI credit card > > verification on their online order store fails for some reason, so these > > quotes are from the CD2. Flame me if the final standard has changed in any > > significant way, or even if it hasn't; I deserve it :-) > > I paid the $18 and downloaded the final standard document. Only to > discover that they have disabled the possibility to copy text to the > clipboard. Another user-friendly feature of the great PDF format. > > This was the last time I paid for an ANSI document. I will continue to > quote from the CD2. :-( (see discussion about this about a month or so ago) As much as I dislike using a bloated HTML browser, I prefer that infinitely more than using the super-bloated copy-protected (literally, as in no copying text from it) Acrobat format of the final standard. I consider this situation most disappointing. -- "I ain't got time for halfway; I ain't got time for half-assed" Ani DiFranco Gargantua Blargg | blargg@flash.net | http://www.flash.net/~blargg/ --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]