Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:39:04 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: matt <matt@S02.ARPA-CANADA.NET> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Little whois patch. Message-ID: <19991205143904.D18336@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912042141330.41590-200000@s02.arpa-canada.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912042141330.41590-200000@s02.arpa-canada.net>
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matt wrote:
> I noticed that the Canadian Internic was being left out of the
> whois command line opts, so I thought I'd add it to the options. I really
> have no clue who to send this to, or if I should use send-pr maybe, but
> it's technically not a problem. Hopefully one of the committers can give
> me feedback on where this should go. It's diffed against 3.3-stable, does
> nothing but give 'whois -c' for whois.internic.ca, us Canadians feel left
> out, cheers. =)
Can we (the UK) have a -u option too? :-) The host is whois.nic.uk.
Anyway, what happens when China want their own option, and find that -c
is taken? Wouldn't a more generic option make more sense, something like
-c <country>, eg `whois -c ca ...' or `whois -c uk ...' ?
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