Question 11.2

How can I get a copy of the Standard?

[Late-breaking news: I've been told that copies of the new C99 can be obtained directly from www.ansi.org; the price for an electronic document is only US $18.00.]

Copies are available in the United States from

American National Standards Institute
11 W. 42nd St., 13th floor
New York, NY  10036  USA
(+1) 212 642 4900

and

Global Engineering Documents
15 Inverness Way E
Englewood, CO  80112  USA
(+1) 303 397 2715
(800) 854 7179  (U.S. & Canada)

In other countries, contact the appropriate national standards body, or ISO in Geneva at:

ISO Sales
Case Postale 56
CH-1211 Geneve 20
Switzerland

(or see URL http://www.iso.ch or check the comp.std.internat FAQ list, Standards.Faq).

At the time of this writing, the cost is $130.00 from ANSI or $410.00 from Global. Copies of the original X3.159 (including the Rationale) may still be available at $205.00 from ANSI or $162.50 from Global. Note that ANSI derives revenues to support its operations from the sale of printed standards, so electronic copies are not available.

In the U.S., it may be possible to get a copy of the original ANSI X3.159 (including the Rationale) as ``FIPS PUB 160'' from

	National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
	U.S. Department of Commerce
	Springfield, VA  22161
	703 487 4650

The mistitled Annotated ANSI C Standard, with annotations by Herbert Schildt, contains most of the text of ISO 9899; it is published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-881952-0, and sells in the U.S. for approximately $40. It has been suggested that the price differential between this work and the official standard reflects the value of the annotations: they are plagued by numerous errors and omissions, and a few pages of the Standard itself are missing. Many people on the net recommend ignoring the annotations entirely. A review of the annotations (``annotated annotations'') by Clive Feather can be found on the web at http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/schildt.html .

The text of the Rationale (not the full Standard) can be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net (see question 18.16) in directory doc/standards/ansi/X3.159-1989, and is also available on the web at http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/title.html . The Rationale has also been printed by Silicon Press, ISBN 0-929306-07-4.

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