ECMA also offer free hard copies

[AndrewAPrice]

Around a month ago I sent in a request for a hard copy of ECMA-335: Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) Partitions I to IV and I'd forgotten all about it. Yesterday I received a notice a parcel came (not knowing what it was) and today I picked it up and still didn't have a clue what this bulky parcel from France could contain until I opened it. They were nice enough to also email an accompanying CD which contains a (complete?) archive of ECMA Standards and Technical Reports, including "ISO/IEC standards which are not freely available," excluding those which are withdrawn.

[whowhatwhere]

So if they can send you free hard copies, how can someone else get the same?

[AndrewAPrice]

Did you try Googling?

Seriously though, here's how I've found it (it's hidden away if you're not looking for it specifically):
http://www.ecma-international.org > Standards > How to obtain Ecma publications

[Owen]

Thank you! I've just placed a request for ECMA-262: ECMAScript Language Specification, 3rd edition (Plus the CD).

Paper copies are always nice.

How do they come bound? Perhaps you could post a picture?

[rootnode]

Bump. I also would like to see how they are bound.

[AndrewAPrice]

Sorry, I've had a busy last few days.

Here it is:

[Owen]

I was going to post a picture of mine, but the forum's maximum attachment size is ridiculously low and uploading to somewhere like ImageShack from a phone would have been incredibly painful.

And the CLR manual is a hell of a lot thicker than the ECMAScript reference!

[rootnode]

Yeah, ordered it last thursday and it arrived today. That's fast.