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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, <[email protected]>

SEE ALSO
       less(1), man(1)



Linux                          February 20, 2016                        RFC(1)