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  • just another hacker

    Searchable text of Kernagan and Richie?

    Word Up Friends ~

    I wuz after an online copy of K&R C book... found me a pdf, but it's
    only got scanned text.

    Can ppl suggest a url with fully searchable text of the book?

    Thanx M8S.
  • Flash Gordon

    #2
    Re: Searchable text of Kernagan and Richie?

    just another hacker wrote, On 28/12/07 16:56:
    Word Up Friends ~
    >
    I wuz after an online copy of K&R C book... found me a pdf, but it's
    only got scanned text.
    Please report that site to the publisher. It is in breach of copyright.
    Can ppl suggest a url with fully searchable text of the book?
    There are no legally available electronic copies of K&R. None. All such
    copies are illegal and using one instead of buying a legal copy is
    denying the authors money for the work they put in, money that they
    deserve in my opinion.
    --
    Flash Gordon

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    • Walter Roberson

      #3
      Re: Searchable text of Kernagan and Richie?

      In article <r7nf45xhso.ln2 @news.flash-gordon.me.uk>,
      Flash Gordon <spam@flash-gordon.me.ukwro te:
      >There are no legally available electronic copies of K&R. None. All such
      >copies are illegal and using one instead of buying a legal copy is
      >denying the authors money for the work they put in, money that they
      >deserve in my opinion.
      I know what you mean, but I -suspect- you are technically wrong.
      There are probably electronic copies of the book for use by the blind.
      (I have personally met two blind programmers, so I know for
      sure they exist.)
      --
      "I was very young in those days, but I was also rather dim."
      -- Christopher Priest

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      • Richard Heathfield

        #4
        Re: Searchable text of Kernagan and Richie?

        Walter Roberson said:
        In article <r7nf45xhso.ln2 @news.flash-gordon.me.uk>,
        Flash Gordon <spam@flash-gordon.me.ukwro te:
        >
        >>There are no legally available electronic copies of K&R. None. All such
        >>copies are illegal and using one instead of buying a legal copy is
        >>denying the authors money for the work they put in, money that they
        >>deserve in my opinion.
        >
        I know what you mean, but I -suspect- you are technically wrong.
        There are probably electronic copies of the book for use by the blind.
        ISTR Greg Doensch (who is the Prentice Hall person responsible for K&R)
        once telling me that no electronic version of any edition of K&R legally
        exists. Either he's wrong or you are (or of course I could be
        disremembering, but I don't think I am).

        --
        Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk >
        Email: -http://www. +rjh@
        Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php>
        "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999

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        • Ben Pfaff

          #5
          Re: Searchable text of Kernagan and Richie?

          Richard Heathfield <rjh@see.sig.in validwrites:
          Walter Roberson said:
          >
          >In article <r7nf45xhso.ln2 @news.flash-gordon.me.uk>,
          >Flash Gordon <spam@flash-gordon.me.ukwro te:
          >>
          >>>There are no legally available electronic copies of K&R. None. All such
          >>>copies are illegal and using one instead of buying a legal copy is
          >>>denying the authors money for the work they put in, money that they
          >>>deserve in my opinion.
          >>
          >I know what you mean, but I -suspect- you are technically wrong.
          >There are probably electronic copies of the book for use by the blind.
          >
          ISTR Greg Doensch (who is the Prentice Hall person responsible for K&R)
          once telling me that no electronic version of any edition of K&R legally
          exists. Either he's wrong or you are (or of course I could be
          disremembering, but I don't think I am).
          An electronic version of K&R could exist without Prentice Hall's
          knowledge or approval, because in the US creation of media
          exclusively for use of the blind does not require permission of
          the copyright holder.
          --
          "C has its problems, but a language designed from scratch would have some too,
          and we know C's problems."
          --Bjarne Stroustrup

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          • Walter Roberson

            #6
            Re: Searchable text of Kernagan and Richie?

            In article <TNadncPxpPLDqu janZ2dnUVZ8qfin Z2d@bt.com>,
            Richard Heathfield <rjh@see.sig.in validwrote:
            >Walter Roberson said:
            >In article <r7nf45xhso.ln2 @news.flash-gordon.me.uk>,
            >Flash Gordon <spam@flash-gordon.me.ukwro te:
            >>>There are no legally available electronic copies of K&R. None.
            >I know what you mean, but I -suspect- you are technically wrong.
            >There are probably electronic copies of the book for use by the blind.
            >ISTR Greg Doensch (who is the Prentice Hall person responsible for K&R)
            >once telling me that no electronic version of any edition of K&R legally
            >exists. Either he's wrong or you are
            Checking, I see that Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic has it
            on -audio- CD, and that there is a braille copy available.


            Checking Canadian law, I see that

            32. (1) It is not an infringement of copyright for a person, at the
            request of a person with a perceptual disability, or for a non-profit
            organization acting for his or her benefit, to

            (a) make a copy or sound recording of a literary, musical,
            artistic or dramatic work, other than a cinematographic work, in
            a format specially designed for persons with a perceptual
            disability;



            The permission of the publisher would not be needed in this case.
            --
            "All is vanity." -- Ecclesiastes

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