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Date:      Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:16:59 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 'rtfm' script
Message-ID:  <19990705201658.G97224@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990706125822.A26646@patho.gen.nz>; from Joe Abley on Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 12:58:22PM %2B1200
References:  <19990705051156.B97224@holly.dyndns.org> <19990706125822.A26646@patho.gen.nz>

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On Mon, Jul 5, 1999, Joe Abley wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 05:11:57AM -0500, Chris Costello wrote:
> >    I've been encountering people recently who, for one reason or
> > another, are unable to find information for themselves when they
> > have a question on FreeBSD.
> > 
> >    I propose an rtfm(1) command, and I've got some Perl code that
> > works.  If people are interested, I will continue with it, and
> > write a man page.
> > 
> >    The source is attached.
> 
> It would be good if you could use fetch(1) instead of forming the
> HTTP request yourself. That way people who already have fetch working
> through proxies don't have to modify anything to use rtfm.
> 
> Is there a particular reason you're writing it in perl?

   Mostly regexp and such.  If I can figure out how to use the
regexp code for C, I'd probably rewrite it.

> 
> 
> Joe

-- 
Chris Costello                                <chris@calldei.com>
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.


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