[9fans] rfc / internet-draft viewer

[9fans] rfc / internet-draft viewer

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

I cleaned up my RFC/I-D viewer and mirroring tools and pushed them
up to /n/9pio/contrib/lyndon/rfc.tar.  They're a bit more functional
than the existing /lib/rfc/grabrfc, and interface nicely with the
plumber.

Note that I have an /rc/bin/aux directory that I 'bind -a' to
/bin/aux in my global namespace.  If you don't want to do that
binding you'll have to fiddle the mkfile a bit.  Otherwise, add
'bind -a /rc/bin/aux /bin/aux' to /lib/namespace to make the
mirror commands visible.


     RFC(1)                                                     RFC(1)

     NAME
          rfc, idmirror, rfcmirror - Display RFCs and Internet Drafts

     SYNOPSIS
          rfc [-p] docref
          rfc [-p] -dIis

          aux/idmirror [-v]
          aux/rfcmirror [-v]

     DESCRIPTION
          rfc displays IETF RFCs and Internet Drafts.  docref is a
          plain integer in the case of RFCs, or a string of the form
          draft-* for Internet Drafts.  rfc can also display indexes
          of drafts, RFCs, and STDs by specifying one of the following
          flags:

          -d   display the Internet Drafts index

          -I   display the index of recent RFCs

          -i   display the unabridged RFC index

          -s   display the list of STDs

          rfc invokes B to display the document; specifying -p instead
          prints the document on the standard output.

          idmirror and rfcmirror maintain the local mirrors of the
          IETF document repositories.  The -v flag makes them print
          the names of documents added or removed from the local mir-
          ror.  Only the text versions of the documents are mirrored.

          rfcmirror also puts a copy of the recent-RFCs index into
          /lib/news/latest_rfcs for use by news(1).

        Plumbing
          Adding the following to $home/lib/plumbing (ahead of the
          include basic line) makes RFC and Internet Draft references
          plumbable:

          type is text
          data matches '[Rr][Ff][Cc][ ]*([0-9]+)(.[Tt][Xx][Tt])?'
          plumb start rfc $1

          type is text
          data matches '(draft-[a-z0-9-]+-[0-9]+)(.txt)?'
          plumb start rfc $1

     FILES
          /lib/doc/ietf  the local document mirror.

     BUGS
          The internet drafts FTP server (ftp.ietf.org) has an
          absurdly short command channel timeout.  If you have a slow
          network connection this can cause idmirror to fail, report-
          ing an ftpfs rpc error.  The problem is with the IETF's FTP
          server, not idmirror.

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