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Grex Internet Item 138: RFC
Entered by bertram on Mon Nov 2 18:00:17 UTC 1998:

Hi everyone,
Are formatted (*.ps,*.doc,*.tex*.html) versions of the RFCs available
anywhere ? I needed some printouts, and plain text versions are.... well,
non-glamorous.
Bertie

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#1 of 1 by remmers on Fri Nov 6 11:26:01 1998:

I don't know of any. There used to be an effort made to publish ascii
and postscript versions of RFC's simultaneously, but in the interests of
speed this was abandoned in 1993. A postscript version is now optional,
and I don't think most RFC authors bother to provide one. See

  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc-editor/rfc-ascii-before-postscript.html

for some official correspondence on this.

You can find html versions of the RFC's at

  http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/information/rfc.html

In these, cross-references have been turned into hyperlinks, which
facilitates browsing the RFC's online. The text is formatted with <PRE>
though, so the look is identical to the ascii versions, which doesn't
help with prettyprinting.

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