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Date:      Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:07:34 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        matt <matt@S02.ARPA-CANADA.NET>, FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Little whois patch.
Message-ID:  <19991205210734.A90126@florence.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991205143904.D18336@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912042141330.41590-200000@s02.arpa-canada.net> <19991205143904.D18336@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 02:39:04PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> 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 ...' ?

The whois in -current has a fix for this.  I'm working to get it mfc'd
to the 3.x for sometime after 3.4 hits the press.

Joe
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