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]

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.

 

[Walter Roberson]

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.)

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Walter Roberson said:

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).

 

[Ben Pfaff]

Walter Roberson said:


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.

 

[Walter Roberson]

Walter Roberson said:

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/ShowDo...ga:l_IV//en?page=3&isPrinting=false#codese:32

The permission of the publisher would not be needed in this case.