ABNF validator

Chris Newman <cnewman@iplanet.com> Fri, 27 April 2001 00:26 UTC

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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:24:53 -0700
From: Chris Newman <cnewman@iplanet.com>
Subject: ABNF validator
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I've created a little utility to validate ABNF syntax at:

  <http://www2.innosoft.com/~cnewman/abnf.html>

I need to revise my message lint utility to support RFC 2822 rather than 
822, although it already generates warnings for most of the obsolete syntax:

  <http://www2.innosoft.com/~cnewman/msglint.html>

		- Chris