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HeadlessChild on Feb 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: BSD socket API revamp

OT: How is text files like this (or like any RFC) written? Is there any standard format and is it done in a specific way?

EDIT: Found it! There was actually a RFC for that. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7322

hueving on Feb 19, 2017 | | [–]

So RFCs are self-hosting? ;)

kevin_thibedeau on Feb 19, 2017 | [–]

Nroff traditionally but now there are any number of foo2rfc tools.

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