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- From: kjartan@repulse.saclay.cea.fr
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: A RFC Hack
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.134925.5217@nenufar.saclay.cea.fr>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:49:25 GMT
- Sender: @nenufar.saclay.cea.fr
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- Lines: 32
- Approved: Yes Sir !
- Nntp-Posting-Host: repulse.saclay.cea.fr
-
- Hi again!
-
- Lots of people have shown some interest in getting the hyper-linked file
- to access RFC files. This has led me to consider a more useful version
- of it.
-
- The first thing is to actually automate the retrieving of new RFCs. The
- simplest way is (and that is the one i'm working on right now) is to NFS
- mount the RFC archives from wuarchive.wustl.edu. These seems to be updated
- quite regularly. The NeXTStep is then to periodically update an index on
- the whole stuff (to enable word queries), and the last step would be to
- parse each RFC file on access, and automagically insert hyperlinks for
- each reference to other RFCs. This latest part is the most difficult, as
- there is no standard way of referring a RFC (RFCxxx, RFC-xxx, RFC xxx)
- but I guess that a smart parser could handle it.
-
- Another nice option would be to make queries only on the most actual RFCs
- for a given subject. This would have to use the Obsoletes: line in the
- RFCs but I'm not sure whether this line has a standard format.
-
- The ultimate would then be (apart from a nice NextStep interface) to
- interface the whole thing in the World-Wide-Web, such as to make this
- universally available, but that shouldn't be too difficult, once that
- all the above is fulfilled.
-
- If anybody has some other suggestions, or have a special gift for writing
- intelligent parsers, they are welcome to mail it to me.
-
- -Kjartan
-
- ObHack: Convicing a large stupid Cray that it actually was a nice
- and slender NeXT slab.
-