On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote: | [ On Wednesday, October 20, 1999 at 14:14:12 (-0700), Chris Cappuccio wrote: ] | > Subject: Re: NSI again removes services | > | > 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 ;) | | *Eight* years old! Even the latest version of the real whois isn't | quite that old yet! ;-) I had no idea! Congratulations at least for | having your code survive for that long. That might also explain why I | wasn't able to find a canonical distribution site for the source code. | Well, 7 or 8 years i don't remember 1992 ?? There certainly was a whois.c from the pre-internic days and it didn't compile on Linux, hence the need for fwhois ;) | Sometimes I wonder about the tastes of some of those who make up Linux | distributions. Other times I wonder whether or not they've just got a | hate on for anything from *BSD! :-) | IMHO it's lack of attention to detail | (Oh how I pine for the idea of a single distributed rwhois-style | database where a simple query would always find the answer no matter | who's whois data it was!) | geektools.com ?? There are several unofficial services that do this sort of thing