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I thought I would post this for beginner C programmers who are interested. The disclaimer states:

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The C Book � Disclaimer and Copyright Notice
The first edition of this book was based on a late draft of the ANSI standard for C and is copyright Mike Banahan. This online version is a reproduction of the second edition based on the published ANSI standard. The second edition was published in 1991, copyright Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran. By agreement with Declan Brady and Mark Doran, copyright in this online version and derived works is copyright Mike Banahan, 2003. The print versions were published by Addison Wesley.

This online version is derived from files in Unix nroff format discovered on a floppy disk just prior to a move of offices by GBdirect Ltd. It is believed that the files were were used by the publishers Addison Wesley in the preparation of the second print edition and that some amendments or corrections may have been made in the print version that are not reflected in this online version. The online version was prepared with the assistance of some Perl scripts written by Mike Banahan, by Steve King, who cleaned up the output of the Perl scripts and also by sterling work by Geoff Richards and Aaron Crane who performed magic with XSLT to produce the HTML documents.

The publication of the online version is for historical interest and readers are warned that it should be treated as an historical document. There is now a later standard for the C programming language and this publication cannot be considered current: whilst for the most part the current and the first standard are very close, some substantive changes and extensions have occurred since 1991. NO WARRANTY IS OFFERED AS TO THE COMPLETENESS OR ACCURACY OF THE MATERIAL.

Permission is hereby granted for anyone to do anything that they want with this material�you may freely reprint it, redistribute it, amend it or do whatever you like with it. In doing so you must accept that you do so strictly on your own liability and that you accept any consequences with no liability whatsoever remaining with the original authors. If you find the material useful and happen to encounter one of the authors, it is unlikely that they will refuse offers to buy them a drink. You may therefore like to consider this material �drinkware�. (Offer void where prohibited by law, in which case fawning and flattery may be substituted.)

I have not modified this at all.

The attachment (~1MB) is too large to attach and I dont feel like breaking it up into tenths so could I email it to a admin to decide whether or not to upload it?

Are you somehow affiliated with this book? I'm not understanding the purpose of this thread.

This material was provided to a course I am in. I thought I would post it here for all beginner C programmers to reference. It is essentially textbook on C that was written in 1991 (I believe). Its outdatedness is appearent but its content is still largely helpful. I have no affiliation to the book. Im just trying to pass along a resource.

Did they give you a link to this? If it's available online a link would be much easier.

I'll take a look of that, can you send me a copy or give me the link?

The link is referenced through a piece of learning software ( or I can d/l it). If there is a web address associated with the site, I do not know what it is. I can check the site again for some reference of a URL but as of right now, I can only give you the files.

ok I found the site, it is freely available online. I havent been around PFO for a while so I dont if there is a download section. I didnt see on the site a link to download the entire thing so I can provide the book for offline viewing.

The C Book

It'd be great if you wrote a review of the book and put it in the Book Reviews section. You can include the link there.

I dont think Im quite qualified to write a review of the book. There are still chapters in there that I havent studied yet! I would, however, love to see what a more seasoned programmer thinks about it.