From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 21 23:43:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F9B737B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 23:43:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringworld.nanolink.com) Received: (qmail 33894 invoked by uid 1000); 22 May 2001 06:42:39 -0000 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:42:39 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: whois.1 markup patch Message-ID: <20010522094239.A30483@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, Well, here's a little markup fix for whois.1 - sentences on a new line, a couple of trade names marked as such, and a couple of other references suitably marked instead of being given in plain text. G'luck, Peter -- If this sentence were in Chinese, it would say something else. Index: src/usr.bin/whois/whois.1 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.1,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 whois.1 --- src/usr.bin/whois/whois.1 2000/11/20 19:21:19 1.16 +++ src/usr.bin/whois/whois.1 2001/05/22 05:54:44 @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ .It Fl a Use the American Registry for Internet Numbers .Pq Tn ARIN -database. It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world -covered neither by +database. +It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world covered neither by .Tn APNIC nor by .Tn RIPE . Contact (handle) information should be looked up by appending "-ARIN" to the @@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ .Pp .It Fl d Use the US Department of Defense -database. It contains points of contact for subdomains of +database. +It contains points of contact for subdomains of .Tn \&.MIL . .It Fl g Use the US non-military federal government database, which contains points of @@ -87,22 +88,28 @@ .It Fl i Use the Network Solutions Registry for Internet Numbers .Pq Tn whois.networksolutions.com -database. It contains network numbers and domain contact information -for most of +database. +It contains network numbers and domain contact information for most of .Tn \&.COM , .Tn \&.NET , .Tn \&.ORG and .Tn \&.EDU domains. -NOTE! The registration of these domains is now done by a number of +.Pp +.Sy NOTE! +The registration of these domains is now done by a number of independent and competing registrars and this database holds no information -on the domains registered by organizations other than Network Solutions, Inc. -Also, note that the InterNIC database +on the domains registered by organizations other than Network Solutions, Inc. +Also, note that the +.Tn InterNIC +database .Pq Tn whois.internic.net -is no longer handled by Network Solutions, Inc. -For details, see: -http://www.internic.net/. +is no longer handled by +.Tn Network Solutions, Inc . +For details, see +.Pa http://www.internic.net/ . +.Pp Contact (handle) information should be looked up by prefixing "handle " to the NIC handle in the querry: .Pp @@ -117,29 +124,34 @@ .It Fl p Use the Asia/Pacific Network Information Center .Pq Tn APNIC -database. It contains network numbers used in East Asia, Australia, +database. +It contains network numbers used in East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands. .It Fl Q Do a quick lookup. This means that .Nm will not attempt to lookup the name in the authoritative whois server (if one is listed) nor will it contact InterNic if a lookup -fails. This flag has no effect when combined with any other flag. +fails. +This flag has no effect when combined with any other flag. .It Fl r Use the R\(aaeseaux IP Europ\(aaeens .Pq Tn RIPE -database. It contains network numbers and domain contact information +database. +It contains network numbers and domain contact information for Europe. .It Fl R Use the Russia Network Information Center .Pq Tn RIPN -database. It contains network numbers and domain contact information +database. +It contains network numbers and domain contact information for subdomains of .Tn \&.RU . .It Fl 6 Use the IPv6 Resource Center .Pq Tn 6bone -database. It contains network names and addresses for the IPv6 network. +database. +It contains network names and addresses for the IPv6 network. .El .Pp The operands specified to To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message