RFC(1) USER COMMANDS RFC(1)
NAME
rfc - download internet RFCs and display them on screen, man-style
SYNOPSIS
rfc [rfc number or search string]
DESCRIPTION
rfc downloads internet RFCs and displays them on screen. In interactive
mode, screen display is delegated to less(1) which means that less com-
mands such as regexp searches are available.
A simple regex search function is also available to search the titles
of released RFCs.
Some attempt is made to remove unnecessary formatting. The RFCs are all
formatted for printing on US letter, which means that there are a lot
of extra line-feeds and form-feeds between pages. rfc tries to remove
as much of it as possible to allow for pleasant reading on screen. Due
to the impressive amount of ASCII art present in RFCs, reflowing the
text is hard or impossible, so readers should set their terminal widths
to at least 80 characters wide to read them comfortably.
SOURCES
Currently, rfc fetches RFCs from their source, the rfc-editor.org web-
site. My intention is to add support for the RFC packages that many
distros contain, so that the program can operate offline as well.
AUTHOR
Johan Förberg, <johan@forberg.se>
SEE ALSO
less(1), man(1)
Linux February 20, 2016 RFC(1)