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Browse Colorful,
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7. Jun. 30, 2006, RFC Browser Version 3.5 released!
6. Free license for RFC and
IETF draft authors!
5. Feb. 18, 2006, RFC Browser Version 3.0 released!
4. Nov. 3, 2005, RFC Browser Version 2.0 released!
3. Jul. 14, 2005, Standard Edition V1.3 released!
2. Jul. 14, 2005, Lite Edition V1.3 released!
1. Jul. 14, 2005, Free Edition V1.3 released!
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RFC Browser Family has following editions:
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Browse Colorful,
Visual, Scalable
Hyper-RFCs!
Large RFC required to read? Lots of RFCs required to read?
RFC Browser is the tool you need.
RFC Browser is a viewer for browsing RFC documents as
well as IETF drafts. It is a powerful utility to view RFCs that converts
RFC plain texts into HyperRFCs: intra-RFC
and inter-RFC hyperlinking, Colorful,
Visual, Scalable.
Hyper: Most of
original RFCs and IETF drafts are written in plain text format. Fortunately, RFC Browser
provides an alternative way to view RFCs - rendering them into HyperRFCs! In RFC
Browser, the RFC Index File and the RFCs look like html files, they own both
intra-RFC and inter-RFC hyperlinks: RFC titles and RFC numbers in Index
File, entries in Table of Contents, References and the quotations, URLs of
author information (home page/E-Mail) and so on. RFCs are now more rich!
Colorful: Users can
assign different fonts to RFC Title, Section Title, Table of Contents,
Header/Footer, Author URL, RFC Anchor, and Default Text.
Visual: Furthermore,
RFC Browser provides tree views to facilitate browsing: tree view of RFC/draft
Indexing, tree view of document structure and tree view of pages.
Scalable: If users
choose to hide Footers, Headers and blank lines after Footers and before
Headers, the length of RFC will become shorter obviously! Small size of fonts
also result in less printing paper.
Powerful: If RFCs are your everyday
readings, RFC Browser is the optimal explorer to assist you, as you need IE,
Netscape, etc to browse web files.
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Features of Standard Edition:
- Powerful parser that analyzes RFC Index File
and most RFCs. It retrieves kinds of elements from RFCs and IETF drafts in text format:
relations among RFCs, Table of Contents, References (including quotations
and RFC anchors), Footers and Headers,
pagination, and author's home page and E-Mail, etc.
- Rich and friendly user interface: 3 views
(Index View for RFC Index File, Structure View and Page View for RFCs and
IETF drafts),
intra-RFC and inter-RFC hyperlink, color rendering of fonts, scalable RFC
length (hide or show Footers/Headers/blank lines, font size), print and
print preview,
- Index View illustrates information of all
RFCs and build a tree view for IETF drafts. Users can find and view the
information of specific document, explore the
relative RFCs, open the RFC in the Browser just by one click!
- Structure View provides a navigating tree of
RFC including information of Table of Contents (RFC Browser will build one
if it doesn't exist!), References. Readers can discover the outline
of RFC and go to any section to get the detail at ease.
- Page View can help you browse the RFC page by
page or turn to the page you want anytime.
- Hypertext-like browsing: RFC Browser renders
RFC Title, Subtitles, Table of Contents, Headers/Footers and Default Text
using different fonts. Users can go to the content by clicking on RFC index,
the entry of Table of Contents and References as browsing a html file.
Hyperlink of authors' URLs help you visit their sites or send E-Mail to
them. Go
Back and Go Forward function help you browse several sections repeatedly.
- Scalable: You can hide Footers/Headers and
blank lines near them to compact the RFC length, and show new page
separators to keep the page breaking information. In addiction, You can
adjust the font size to meet your requirement.
- Download tools can update RFC index file,
download single RFC or RFC collection via Internet.
- Favorite RFCs function helps quickly open the
RFCs that you often read.
- Bookmarks function keeps a list of positions
you want to turn to frequently.
In contrast to Standard Edition, Lite Edition
- does NOT support intra-RFC hyperlink, so
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NOT support Index View, and
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NO index update tool.
- does
NOT support analysis of References section.
- has
NO Favorite RFCs.
- has
NO Bookmarks.
- does
NOT support drag and drop.
In contrast to Lite Edition, FREE Edition
- is free for None-Commercial use only.
- could load RFCs with file size < 64k bytes only.
- is an SDI application, so that it can open only one document at the same
time.
- does
NOT support printing and print preview.
- supports
NO options.
- has
NO download tools.
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| FAQs |
Q: How to buy?
A: You can buy online: here
(Standard Edition) or here
(Lite Edition).
Q: What are Colorful, Visual, Scalable Hyper-RFCs?
A: RFC Browser analyzes the RFC (or IETF draft) you
open and display a tree view of structure or page-indexing as
navigator. It also analyzes RFC Index File (rfc-index.txt) and
provides RFC-indexing to help users find and view the specific RFC.
Both type of files are shown as hypertexts. Furthermore, flexible
operations reformat RFC into a more compact perspective or printing without destroying the
original structure and page-indexing.
Q: Does RFC Browser support IETF drafts?
A: Yes, RFC Browser is designed to do so. However,
drafts are drafts, some of them are not well formatted so that it is
impossible to parse them right 100%. RFC and IETF draft authors can get
a free license and check the format using the Browser.
Q: What is RFC Index File, and what is RFC collection?
A: RFC Index File, namly
rfc-index.txt, is a file contains citations for all RFCs in numeric order.
RFC collection is a zipped package of almost all RFCs. They can be
downloaded on many web or FTP sites, e.g., ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/.
They will be updated from time to time and
RFC Browser's built-in download tools keep your RFCs in up-to-day
status.
Q: I don't like
some of the text colors, how to change it?
A: You can change the format options, including fonts of RFC
Title, Subtitles, Table of Contents, Headers/Footers
and Default Text. Click Tools menu, and then Options,
click Format tab of the Options dialog, select the Category
you want to change color and press button Select. You'd better
select the values instead of filling in.
Q: Why unable to save the options?
A: Trial Version does NOT save
options, and Free Edition has no options. Please buy Lite or
Standard Edition
if you find RFC Browser is useful.
Q: I
modified an option and saved, but the change didn't take
effect, why?
A: The change will take effect on the next action, i.e. next
launch or next RFC open depending on what the option is.
Q: I disabled Tip of the Day before, where to
activate it again?
A: Menu Help -> Tip of the Day.
Q: When I open rfcxxxx.txt using RFC Browser, the leaves of
the tree in Structure View are all wrong, why?
A: There are some RFCs, expecially old
ones, which are not written in regular format and some drafts are
very initial version and under construction. RFC Browser may NOT
work correctly in these case. Fortunately, RFC Browser works well
with most RFCs since year 1990 and what we read most were issued after
that year. If you find any well-formed RFCs could not be handled
by RFC Browser, please contact us via
email.
Q: Which edition should I select?
A: If you just want to read some small RFCs, you can use
Free Edition (for non-commercial use) or Lite Edition.
If the size of one of the RFCs you want to view is larger than 64k,
Lite Edition is enough.
If you read RFCs a lot, Standard Edition helps.
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