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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:44:08 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: port of ripe's extended whois client.
Message-ID:  <19970617224408.ZS35095@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <19970617194227.38410@pavilion.net>; from Josef Karthauser on Jun 17, 1997 19:42:27 %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970617070708.16331D-100000@nexis.net> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970617123326.26330A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <19970617194227.38410@pavilion.net>

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As Josef Karthauser wrote:

> > Perhaps the standard whois should be fixed to understand the
> > extra info, then...  :)
> 
> May be.. who can say?

We can say.  I'd also vote for this option.  If the extended options
don't conflict with standard usage (so the default doesn't change for
the innocent), there's no reason to have two utilities doing basically
the same, one in the base system, and one in ports.  The bloat is
neglicible, i assume.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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