Title:                  Whois
Purpose:                Front-end to Internet utility Whois
Author:                 Richard Butler <richardjcbutler@eircom.net>
Version:                1.00
Date:                   23/11/01
Keywords:               interent, domains, DNS, http
Shareware:              No
Machine:                Archimedes/RiscPC
Operating system:       RISC OS
Memory requirements:    256k
Other s/ware needed:    Toolbox modules
                        Whois binary

CLI Commands:                        
Usage: whois [OPTION]... OBJECT...

-a                     search all databases
-F                     fast raw output (implies -r)
-g SOURCE:FIRST-LAST   find updates from SOURCE from serial FIRST to LAST
-h HOST                connect to server HOST
-H                     hide legal disclaimers
-i ATTR[,ATTR]...      do an inverse lookup for specified ATTRibutes
-x                     exact match [RPSL only]
-l                     one level less specific lookup [RPSL only]
-L                     find all Less specific matches
-M                     find all More specific matches
-m                     find first level more specific matches
-r                     turn off recursive lookups
-p PORT                connect to PORT
-R                     force to show local copy of the domain object even
                       if it contains referral
-S                     tell server to leave out syntactic sugar
-s SOURCE[,SOURCE]...  search the database from SOURCE
-T TYPE[,TYPE]...      only look for objects of TYPE
-t TYPE                request template for object of TYPE ('all' for a list)
-v TYPE                request verbose template for object of TYPE
-q [version|sources]   query specified server info [RPSL only]
-d                     return DNS reverse delegation objects too [RPSL only]
-K                     only primary keys are returned [RPSL only]
-V    --verbose        explain what is being done
      --help           display this help and exit
      --version        output version information and exit        