[ILUG] [OT] Where to get printed versions of the RFCs ?

[Nick Hilliard]

> I keep downloading ones everytime I need to check something, spend ages 
> on reformatting them from Letter to A4, print them out and then lose 
> them.

But why?  You can't grep dead trees.

I've included below what I normally use for looking at them.  This script
depends on an intelligent ftp client.

usage: rfc [rfc-number]

Nick
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#!/bin/sh

ftphost=ftp.ripe.net
ftpdir=/rfc

rfc=$1
rfcdir=~nick/docs/rfc
filename=rfc$rfc.txt

cd $rfcdir

if [ -f $filename.gz ]; then
	gunzip $filename
fi

if [ ! -f $filename ]; then
	echo Retrieving RFC$rfc...
	ftp $ftphost:$ftpdir/rfc"$rfc".txt . > /dev/null 2>&1
	if [ "X"$? != "X0" ]; then
		echo Could not retrieve RFC$rfc
		exit
	fi
fi

less -i $filename