From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 6 1:37:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 134E014C25 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 01:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id KAA29852; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:36:56 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:36:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Chris Costello Cc: Joe Abley , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'rtfm' script In-Reply-To: <19990705201658.G97224@holly.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG libperl? Nick On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > 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 > The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message