[ On Wednesday, October 20, 1999 at 17:30:11 (+0100), Patrick Evans wrote: ]
Subject: Re: NSI again removes services
My machines generally come with fwhois, which wants it in the format 'whois $domain@$server'...As you suggest, sending the commands straight to the TCP port takes care of that.
Isn't that "fwhois <domain>@<server>" ? :-) ----^ I think the inventor of fwhois should have nasty things done to the arguments of every command he ever types again! 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? -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>