rfcreader.1.in

.TH @PACKAGENAME@ 1 @MANPAGEDATE@ aeon.icebear.org "rfc retriever and viewer"

.SH NAME
@PACKAGENAME@ \- An RFC document retriever and viewer

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B @PACKAGENAME@
.RB [\| \-f \|]
.IR rfcnum
.RB  | 
.IR rfcname
.RB " ... "

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B @PACKAGENAME@
is a script which starts a pager with localy available RFC documents. If the
requested document is not localy available it is fetched via FTP or HTTP from
configurable sources. This way the requester doesn't need to care about the
sources for the RFC documents.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-\-force
force the retrieval of the requested RFCs from external sources. Useful
for the \*(lqrfc-index\*(rq document.
.TP
.IR rfcnum
.RB  |
.IR rfcname
.RB  " ..."
either just the rfc number for the requested document or the full rfc name
(like \*(lqrfc-index\*(rq or \*(lqrfc2822\*(rq).

.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B RFCPAGER
The pager to use to display the RFC. If not explicitly set the content of
the
.I PAGER
environment variable is used or \*(lqless\*(rq if this is also empty.
.TP
.B RFCPATHS
Local directories to search for requested RFCs. The first writable directory
is the one where retrieved RFCs are written to.
.TP
.B RFCEXTENSIONS
Space separated list of extension to the given document name to deal with.
Default is \*(lq.txt .txtgz .html\*(rq.
.TP
.B RFCSOURCES
Space separated list of FTP and HTTP sources for requested RFC documents.

.SH BUGS
None known yet.

.SH AUTHOR
.P
Copyright (C) 2006-2008
by
.UR mailto:@EMAILADDR@
@AUTHOR@
.UE

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR curl (1).