+-----------------------------------------------+ | Greetings from the X3J14 Technical Committee. | | This message has been prepared on 3 Feb 95 | | by direction of TC Chair. It was revised on | | 3 Jan 96 to correct copyright notice, misuse | | of the acronym ANS, and the section beginning | | with NOTE:, as requested by X3 Secretariat. | +-----------------------------------------------+ The Technical Committee announces the posting of a file known as dpans94.zip for retrieval on the Internet. When expanded this .zip file yields the following three files: dpans94.doc Microsoft Word for Windows 2.0 format, produced by Word 6.0 for Windows. dpans94.txt This file you are reading now notice.txt a file which reads as follows: [begin notice.txt] ========================================================================== Copyright (c) 1994 by ITI, X3 Secretariat. All rights reserved. This is a working document of Technical Committee X3J14 which represents the last draft of American National Standard Forth submitted to ANSI for publication. Permission is hereby granted to copy this document provided that it is copied in its entirety without alteration or as altered by (1) adding text that is clearly marked as an insertion; (2) shading or highlighting existing text; and/or (3) deleting examples. Specifically, permission is granted to use this working document as the foundation for textbooks, system manuals, and online documentation so long as the requirements in the preceding paragraph are met and the resulting product addresses a technical need that is not practically met by the official American National Standard. NOTE: The material described herein is taken from the working paper for the Draft Proposed American National Standard, Programming Language Forth. Approval and technical development work is being conducted by Accredited Standards Committee X3 (Information Technology), and by its Technical Committee X3J14 (Programming Language Forth), respectively. This material *is not* intended as a substitute for the official American National Standard Forth document published by ANSI. In the event of conflict, only the printed document (X3.215-1994) represents the official American National Standard. To obtain the official standard, please contact: the American National Standards Institute Sales Department, at (212) 642-4900 or FAX (212) 302-1286, or Global Engineering Documents, at (800) 854-7179 or FAX (303) 843-9880, and request Document X3.215-1994. Thank you very much for your interest. ========================================================================== [end notice.txt] If you repost this material, please repost the entire original .zip file as you retrieved it so that the original authentication signature is preserved and there is some evidence of the integrity of the document. The original versions of these files are available via anonymous FTP (login=anonymous, password=email-address) from ftp.uu.net which is accessible 24 hours per day by any host whose IP address has a valid domain name that can be determined by the that server using inverse DNS. The URL for the fille is: ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/minerva/x3j14/dpans94.zip or file://ftp.uu.net/vendor/minerva/x3j14/dpans94.zip A WWW (html) page pointing to these files is accessible using the URL: HREF=file://ftp.uu.net/vendor/minerva/uathena.htm This .zip file was produced by PKZIP 2.04g with authentication enabled and, when decompressed, will display: Authentic files Verified! # MYD772 ATHENA Programming, Inc. [followed by the content of the notice.txt file] Copies of PKUNZIP are readily available on most archive sites including, undoubtedly, ftp.uu.net. The TC would appreciate your letting us know how you have used this file. Comments and suggestions may be sent to either of the following e-mail addresses: x3j14@minerva.com - TC members only. ANSForth@minerva.com - TC members as well as many people who have subscribed to this mailgroup. Anything sent to the ansforth list is automatically crossposted onto comp.lang.forth as well. If you wish to direct mail to individual TC members, the above mailgroup lists may be retrieved by fingering the user ansi at the host med3.minerva.com Best Wishes to all!