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fwhois installed in sipb locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Sat May 14 04:23:46 1994
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 14 May 94 04:22:40 EDT
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
A version of whois called fwhois has been installed in the sipb locker.
Here's an excerpt from the README:
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fwhois (finger whois) by Chris Cappuccio <ccappuc@santafe.edu>
Fwhois is a finger-style whois for BSD systems. It is smaller and more
compact then the standard InterNIC whois.c, and also runs in a different
manner. fwhois user@whois.internic.net would be the same as 'whois -h
whois.internic.net user'. This command is espically useful in environments
where different servers are queued, e.g. an organization with multiple
whois servers running for different purposes. This type of command
can also be useful when a user or group of users makes frequent use
of many different whois servers. If a user simply types 'fwhois user'
without a hostname, fwhois will automatically use host whois.internic.net.
