Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:20:34 +1300 From: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/14095: Cosmetic changes to whois(1) Message-ID: <19991005102034.A2567@patho.gen.nz> In-Reply-To: <199910041826.OAA43780@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 02:26:31PM -0400 References: <199910041020.DAA09115@freefall.freebsd.org> <199910041826.OAA43780@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 02:26:31PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Mon, 4 Oct 1999 03:20:01 -0700 (PDT), Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> said: > > > 1. "whois -q demon.co.uk pipex.com uunet.ca" as a single incantation > > ought to return sensible information for all three domains, by making > > multiple queries. The patch I previously submitted will abandon the > > spirit of "-q" in this case, and pass the entire string to the > > default whois server (which is a waste of time). > > This would be incredibly obnoxious as it reverts to a bogus old > behavior of 4.2 whois which would not issue the entire command line to > the WHOIS server. Please don't. Note that this would not be the default behaviour of whois _without_ the -q option. How else would you interpret the above whois statement? Would you prefer an error like "only one argument with -q, please"? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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