#296635 simple RFC viewing script available

Package:
doc-rfc-std
Source:
doc-rfc
Submitter:
Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Date:
2011-11-13 17:48:12 UTC
Severity:
normal
#296635#5
Date:
2005-02-23 17:50:47 UTC
From:
To:
I've made a little script 'rfc' that should make RFC viewing easier.
Would you mind to add it to doc-rfc-std package?

#!/bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 2005 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>
# This code is hereby licensed for public consumption under the
# GNU GPL v2 or greater
#
# Usage: rfc  [ index | number ] [ ... ]
# accepts pure numbers or keyword "index", latter one displays RFC index.
# without parameters displays just the RFC index

cd /usr/share/doc/RFC/links

if [ $# = 0 ]
then
	rfcs="/usr/doc/RFC/rfc-index.txt.gz"
else
	for rfc in "$@"
	do
		if [ "$rfc" = "index" ]
		then
			rfcs="$rfcs ../rfc-index.txt.gz"
		elif [ ! -f "rfc$rfc.txt.gz" ]
		then
			echo "RFC $rfc is not available/installed."
		else
			rfcs="$rfcs rfc$rfc.txt.gz"
		fi
	done

	if [ ! "$rfcs" ]
	then
		exit 1
	fi
fi

if [ "$PAGER" = less ]
then
	zless $rfcs
else
	zmore $rfcs
fi
#296635#10
Date:
2011-11-13 17:47:41 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

related to this: I think all doc-rfc-* packages should also suggest the already
existing rfc readers: emacs-googies-el contains an rfc reader for emacs and
qrfcview is a standalone rfc reader.

Related to this, I'd like to suggest a new debian native package rfc-tools or
rfc-goodies that could collect all kind of small snippets around rfcs. Those
snippets should rather not be part of the doc-rfc package because updating a
small bug in one of the snippets would trigger a rebuild and archive update of
hundreds of megabytes of rfcs.

Regards,

Thomas Koch
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