-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Andrew, There is some pretty good documentation that comes with the rwhois source. There are two releases of note, (v1.0 and v.1.1 ?not sure if these are exact), version 1.5 is more extensible but drops some of the builtins and config from 1.0. I eventually settled on 1.5 with some pieces of 1.0 merged in. 1.0 has much better output control (prettier). The 'extended command language' is documented with the source. Matt On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:
i was arguing with my friend about whois servers. he thought that all whois servers were relatively similar in design and function, and i convinced that wasn't the case.
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the thing that gets me, though, is that the radb.net whois server seems to have some 'extended command language' whereby one can pass query after query over one tcp connection and not get dropped. is this 'language' documented anywhere, or do i just have to find and read source code that uses it?
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