qRFCView

What is qRFCView?

qRFCView is a viewer for IETF RFCs. Advantages are:

• automatic table of content, with direct opening of section;
• handling of RFC internal cross-references;
• automatic downloading of a referenced RFC from the IETF web site on a simple click;
• caching of RFC in a local directory;
• tab-browsing of RFC;
• searching.

It is available for Linux and Windows operating system (and potentially MacOS X).
Current release is 0.62 and you can download it from BerliOS at http://developer.berlios.de/projects/qrfcview/.

How to install it?

qRFCView requires the Trolltech Qt4 library that is available under MAC OS, Windows and Linux platforms. Trolltech's dual license policy provides versions of Qt under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It can be downloaded from http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/downloads.

Win32 building (WinNT/Win2k/WinXP)

Makefile generation: qmake -win32 rfcview.pro
qRFCView binary build: make
Optionally, you can build a Windows installer

Unix building

qmake -unix rfcview.pro
qRFCView binary build: make

Win32 binary

The qRFCView binary can be directly installed by using the provided Win32 installer file. The following DLLs will be added to the windows system directory:

• mingwm10.dll
• QtCore4.dll
• QtDesignerComponents4.dll
• QtGui4.dll
• QtNetwork4.dll

How to use it?

Just start it. Use "File>Load RFC..." to load a RFC by its number.

Double-click on a table of content item to open the corresponding section. Internal links and referenced RFCs are active hyperlinks, underlined in blue.

One can set the default directories where RFC files are saved using "Edit>Set Directories...".

ScreenShots

License

qRFCView is free software, licensed under GNU GPL (see LICENSE file).

Contact

qRFCView has been developped at Mitsubishi Electric, ITE-TCL, France. qRFCView developer is Romain ROLLET <rfcview@gmail.com>.

Known bugs

Under Windows, qRFCView sometimes doesn't close when exiting Windows while qRFCView is still open.