Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-02 Severity: wishlist * Package name : rfc-tool Version : 3.2 Upstream Author : Derrick Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * 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! # [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################################# 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 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux galadriel 2.4.20 #1 dim mar 30 23:53:59 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
