RE: whois tricks was : whois is what?

["Steve Zenone" <Zenone () cats ucsc edu>]

Hello,

Matthew McGehrin wrote:
|Sorry my friend :) I think you meant to type -h instead of @ :)
|
|the -h flag works on both Linux and FreeBSD.

I did mean '@' and not the '-h' flag, although the '-h' is
the "standard". I was demonstrating the '@' as an alternative:

Linux 2.4.2-13-p1-psmp
Whois Server Version 1.3
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syntax: whois [-v] [-r] [-h server] [-p port] [--] query[@server[:port]]
default server is whois.crsnic.net

You are correct, the '@' does not work on the standard FreeBSD builds
of whois, although the binary can be rebuilt with the appropriate
source :-) Thanks for the clarification to the list.

Regards,
Steve