Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

[Stefan Winter <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

>> Today if you're an IEEE type, and you wonder where to find RFC 793, or
>> you're wondering what RFC 793 is about, and you look it up in IEEE
>> Xplore, the online library that all electrical engineers use, and that
>> their employers have site subscriptions for, you'll find ... nothing.
>> Yes, you can find it in Google, but Google isn't a particularly good
>> place to look for engineering papers.  Xplore is.  RFCs aren't in the
>> ACM Digital Library, either, same problem.
> Nor is it in Google Scholar, which is generally where I look first.

As a KDE user, I use the incredibly short shortcut of typing "Alt+F2"
and then rfc:793<Enter>

(which redirects to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc793.txt, not the GED
hardcopy reseller :-) )

But maybe "an IEEE type" (whatever that is) doesn't use KDE. Or any kind
of search engine that would yield the document in a fraction of a
second. Or the internet at all?

Stefan Winter

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