How do I get RFC nroff sources?
Iain Calder <ic56@rogers.com> Sat, 29 September 2007 19:59 UTC
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Subject: How do I get RFC nroff sources?
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This is probably an FAQ but I have not found the answer anywhere. Is it possible to obtain the RFC nroff sources rather than the formatted files? I don't print RFCs, so I want to generate copies without page breaks for on-screen viewing. I wrote the obligatory shell script to remove the headers, footers, form feeds and extraneous white space, but RFCs from different times are formatted to different page lengths and have other cosmetic differences, so my script depends on manual verification and adjustment. I searched hard for a publicly available tool, but only found GUI products (one commercial, one GPL'd) which display the documents in their own IDE (they too seem to work backwards, starting from the formatted files). If the nroff sources are unavailable to the public, surely the IETF's ftp servers could at least maintain a re-formatting tool to save everyone from re-inventing the wheel? Ideally a small but accurately tuned filter that doesn't force its own viewer on you or depend on a megabyte-sized Perl executable? -ic -- Iain Calder ic56.rogers.com. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
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