The text_export utility provides a way to produce a text output of the
RIP database.  The syntax is:

text_export [-v] [-h hostname] [-P port] [-u user] [-p password] database

  -v           produce verbose output (provides some status information)
  -h hostname  name or IP address of the machine running MySQL
  -P port      port MySQL is listening on
  -u user      user to connect to MySQL as
  -p password  password for MySQL user

  database     the name of the MySQL database storing RIP information


Running the program will produce two files for each RPSL class supported
by the RIP database.  The first file is named with the full name of the
class, and contains the objects of that type, in long format.  The
second file uses the two-letter abbreviation for the class, and contains
the objects of that type, in short (formerly "fast") format.

For example:

db.person
db.pn
db.domain
db.dn
   ...

The objects are not sorted or ordered.

If the -v option is used, then a summary including the number of objects
written, and the total time taken will be displayed at the end.  (A dump
of the entire RIPE database takes about 15 minutes, as of 2000-12-05.)


A shell script that combines and compresses these text output files has
also been included, ftp_export.sh, which may be used as a model for
exporting the text files to an FTP server.  Note that this script *MUST*
be modified before use, as it is very system dependent.

$Id: README,v 1.1 2000/12/07 14:07:49 shane Exp $
