Re: Breaking news: What did the IETF ever do for us? The *entire* list!

[Alexis]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> The RFC memos and specifications - published by the 
> semi-mythical IETF - are available in the Debian repositories as 
> the non-free 'doc-rfc' metapackage.
>
> After installation ('sudo aptitude install doc-rfc') the files 
> can be inspected in /usr/share/doc/RFC.  They are all in .gz 
> format, but one can unzip them with gunzip to get a neat 407M 
> directory instead. Win!  This makes it easier to manipulate the 
> files with familiar and unfamiliar tools alike.
>
> Now it gets interesting. I wrote this zsh function to search the 
> RFCs:

Also, there's the `irfc` package for Emacs, which i've found very 
useful:

   http://melpa.org/#/irfc   


Alexis.