Bug#199692: ITP: rfc-tool -- Tool to search in the RFCs and display them
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-02
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : rfc-tool
Version : 3.2
Upstream Author : Derrick Daugherty <rfc@dewn.com>
* URL : http://www.dewn.com/rfc/
* License : Unclear, probably free
Description : Tool to search in the RFCs and display them
The Requests for Comments (RFCs) form a series of notes, started in 1969,
about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss many aspects
of computer communication, focusing on networking protocols, procedures,
programs, and concepts but also including meeting notes, opinion, and
sometimes humor. See RFC2026 (in package rfc-bcp) for more information.
.
This package contains a tool called rfc which can be used to search the
RFCs about a given port number, a given protocol, arbitrary text or even
perl regexps. If you have the rfc-* packages installed, it will search
there, but if not, it will connect to the internet to retrieve the RFC
index and work on it.
Please note that this description is not correct until my new version of
the rfc package gets uploaded to the archive. But I don't exepect the
rfc-tool to hit the archive before the data RFC packages.
Likewise, the licence for now is:
#############################################################################
# Feel free to redistribute as long as you keep this header in tact.
# http://www.dewn.com/rfc/
# Please let me know if you find this useful, I'd love to hear about it!
# rfc@dewn.com
#############################################################################
I contacted upstream to clarify it.
Lastly, for now, it will not search the locally installed RFC, and will
always download the RFC from the net. But I plan to fix this before the
package gets uploaded.
Thanks, Mt.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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