Searchable text of Kernagan and Richie?

[just another hacker]

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]

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

[Walter Roberson]

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

[Richard Heathfield]

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

[Ben Pfaff]

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

[Walter Roberson]

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;

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/C-42/bo-ga:l_III::bo-ga:l_IV//en?page=3&isPrinting=false#codese:32

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