whois package

[Mark Bradshaw]

Just took a look at the bw.org version and realised that it's perl based.
I'd really rather support one that can be compiled.  Without significant
reason otherwise, I'll stick with the gnu package.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:freeweb@nyckelpiga.de]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:23 AM
> To: Jonathan Kamens
> Cc: Mark Bradshaw; cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: whois package
> 
> 
> Hallo Jonathan,
> 
> 2001-12-07 16:22:05, du schriebst:
> 
> >>  Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:55:02 +0100
> >>  From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb@nyckelpiga.de>
> >>  
> >>  Which whois do you want to maintain?
> >>  http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/jwhois.html
> >>  http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/whois.html
> 
> > Don't forget bw-whois, which is my favorite: http://whois.bw.org/
> 
> Yes, great, I didn't know this, I just looked at gnu.org and found
> the other two.
> 
> Gerrit
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