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"Vanguard" <no@mail.invalid> wrote in message news:bpOdnX8OYsuqmlXYnZ2dnUVZ_rydnZ2d@comcast.com
> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:52noruF1pa94kU1@mid.individual.net...
> > Vanguard <no@mail.invalid> wrote
> > > Rod Speed wrote
> > > > Vanguard <no@mail.invalid> wrote
> >
> > > > > Unfortunately it costs to get copies of the ATA specs from
> > > > > http://www.t13.org/
> >
> > > > The drafts are readily available for free and that detail didnt
> > > > change.
> >
> > > They are?
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > > Got a URL for the free copy of the full specs for all ATA revisions?
> >
> > I never said anything about all ATA revisions.
> >
> > > What I see at
> > > http://www.t13.org/Standards/Default...ocumentStage=2
> > > is a list (but no links for them) and the comment "Copies of
> > > published standards may be purchased from: ANSI, ...".
> > > Where are the free copies then?
> >
> > http://www.t13.org/Documents/Default...ocumentStage=2
> > http://www.t13.org/Documents/Default...ocumentStage=1

> I was asking about the actual ratified and approved specifications,

Which obviously will wildly deviate from the last draft just before they
applied the stamp of approval to it.

> not drafts of proposals for those specs. I don't believe "drafts" are
> the actual standard. I had asked about getting the standards spec.

Idjut.

> I didn't realizer you were pointing at a list that contained some drafts
> that proposed those specs. Some entries are just 2-page descriptions or
> placeholders, hardly what would be called a standard specification.
> Some are docs containing corrections, so hardly a specification. Some
> are just entries in the table listing but with no link to an actual doc.
> The specs still cost money.

Thanks for verifying that the real specs for the standards cost money.

Vanguard <no@mail.invalid> wrote

> Thanks for verifying that the real specs for the standards cost money.

No they dont when you have enough of a clue to read the NEXT draft
that includes what was PREVIOUSLY ratified and you can see that
nothing changed with the bit you are interested from THAT draft.

Rule of Holes, child. When you are in one STOP DIGGING.