(newbie)
i have nothing on my box resembling 'whois2'. is this something i have to 
install, or is it something i have to create?

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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Whois Command?
>Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:43:50 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, William J. Salvino wrote:
> > Anybody used whois lately? I must have missed something. Is there a man
> > page for whois? Can't get detailed information with it???
> > I did not find anything to explain on http://www.internic.net. Maybe I
> > am thick.
> > Bill
> > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Someone gave me the instruction on how to fix this. I've since lost his
>instructions, but here's what I now have:
>
>$ ls -l /usr/bin/*whois*
>  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         4748 Feb  4  2000 /usr/bin/fwhois
>  -rwxrwxr-x    1 root     root           39 Jul 19 22:44 /usr/bin/whois
>  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            6 Jun  9  1999 /usr/bin/whois2 
>->
>   fwhois
>$ file /usr/bin/*whois*
>  /usr/bin/fwhois: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
>   dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>  /usr/bin/whois:  ASCII text
>  /usr/bin/whois2: symbolic link to fwhois
>
>So `whois2' is a symbolic link to the binary, `fwhois'. `Whois' is now a
>shell script:
>
>$ less `which whois`
>  #/bin/sh
>  whois2 $[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>So if you edit your system so that it's identical to what I now have you'll
>find that the whois command now works very well. In fact, IMHO it works
>better than in previous distributions now that I've made these changes.
>
>Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>Russ.
>
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