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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1985 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 6be9699a | 3 | .\" |
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4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted |
| 5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
| 6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
| 7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
| 11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .\" @(#)whois.1 6.3 (Berkeley) %G% | |
| 6be9699a | 17 | .\" |
| 780f2d2b | 18 | .TH WHOIS 1 "" |
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19 | .UC 6 |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 21 | whois \- DARPA Internet user name directory service | |
| 22 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 23 | .B whois | |
| 24 | name | |
| 25 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 26 | .TP | |
| 27 | whois help | |
| 28 | Produces a helpful message similar to the following: | |
| 29 | .PP | |
| 30 | Please enter a name or a handle (``ident"), such as ``Smith" | |
| 31 | or ``SRI-NIC". | |
| 32 | Starting with a period forces a name-only search; | |
| 33 | starting with exclamation point forces handle-only. | |
| 34 | Examples: | |
| 35 | .nf | |
| 36 | Smith [looks for name or handle SMITH ] | |
| 780f2d2b | 37 | !SRI-NIC [looks for handle SRI-NIC only ] |
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38 | .Smith, John [looks for name JOHN SMITH only ] |
| 39 | .fi | |
| 40 | Adding ``..." to the argument will match anything from that point, | |
| 41 | e.g. ``ZU..." will match ZUL, ZUM, etc. | |
| 42 | .PP | |
| 43 | To have the ENTIRE membership list of a group or organization, | |
| 44 | if you are asking about a group or org, shown with the record, use | |
| 45 | an asterisk character `*' directly preceding the given argument. | |
| 46 | [CAUTION: If there are a lot of members this will take a long time!] | |
| 47 | You may of course use exclamation point and asterisk, or a period | |
| 48 | and asterisk together. | |
| 6be9699a | 49 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 780f2d2b | 50 | RFC 812: Nicname/Whois |