whois 1.00 for BeOS DR8
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This is a simple port of the original UC Berkeley whois source.  If you
don't know what whois is, try typing 'whois your.favorite.domain'.  It's
especially handy against spammers because they legally have to provide
valid data for contact points!

I had to rewrite the socket read/write routines since they were using the
file paradigm, which Be's POSIX layer does not provide.

If you look at the original code, they never close the file handles nor
the socket!  I'm not sure if BSD Unix closes a process's file handles
when it exits, but this seems sloppy.

This program has been minimally tested.  Here's my test:
whois mdc.com
<< valid data returned >>
It works --> I'll release it now.

Mike Perham
mperham@cs.cornell.edu
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/mperham