On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote: | I think the inventor of fwhois should have nasty things done to the | arguments of every command he ever types again! | The fact that several widely used Linux distributions still have this ancient, broken program that I cobbled together from old finger source code nearly 8 years ago should speak for itself ;) | You can still get the *real* whois client from most any *BSD, or from | the InterNIC ftp site. You can also find the much more advanced RIPE | version too (of which a slightly modified version is now in | NetBSD-current too). | | ftp://rs.internic.net/netprog/whois.c | ftp://ftp.ripe.net/tools/ripe-whois-tools-2.4.tar.gz | | However wouldn't just quoting the so-called "domain" portion make a | multi-word query like that work with fwhois? Yes