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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| 780f2d2b | 5 | .\" @(#)whois.1 6.2 (Berkeley) %G% |
| 6be9699a | 6 | .\" |
| 780f2d2b | 7 | .TH WHOIS 1 "" |
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8 | .UC 6 |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | whois \- DARPA Internet user name directory service | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | .B whois | |
| 13 | name | |
| 14 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 15 | .TP | |
| 16 | whois help | |
| 17 | Produces a helpful message similar to the following: | |
| 18 | .PP | |
| 19 | Please enter a name or a handle (``ident"), such as ``Smith" | |
| 20 | or ``SRI-NIC". | |
| 21 | Starting with a period forces a name-only search; | |
| 22 | starting with exclamation point forces handle-only. | |
| 23 | Examples: | |
| 24 | .nf | |
| 25 | Smith [looks for name or handle SMITH ] | |
| 780f2d2b | 26 | !SRI-NIC [looks for handle SRI-NIC only ] |
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27 | .Smith, John [looks for name JOHN SMITH only ] |
| 28 | .fi | |
| 29 | Adding ``..." to the argument will match anything from that point, | |
| 30 | e.g. ``ZU..." will match ZUL, ZUM, etc. | |
| 31 | .PP | |
| 32 | To have the ENTIRE membership list of a group or organization, | |
| 33 | if you are asking about a group or org, shown with the record, use | |
| 34 | an asterisk character `*' directly preceding the given argument. | |
| 35 | [CAUTION: If there are a lot of members this will take a long time!] | |
| 36 | You may of course use exclamation point and asterisk, or a period | |
| 37 | and asterisk together. | |
| 6be9699a | 38 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 780f2d2b | 39 | RFC 812: Nicname/Whois |