whois package

[Mark Bradshaw]

I got a couple of notes last week from Chris and Jonathan Kamens suggesting
bw-whois as the package of choice, but no pro or con list.  I basically
assumed that a compiled version would be more generally preferred, since it
would be easier to use in stripped down installations of cygwin (not having
any perl baggage).  Does anyone know if there's any particular cool feature
that bw-whois supports that the GNU whois package at
http://www.gnu.org/gnulist/production/whois.html does not?  I don't really
see any significant difference, but if I'm gonna maintain a package I'd
sorta like to maintain the right thing.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bradshaw 
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:29 AM
> To: 'cygwin-apps@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: whois package
> 
> 
> Can you give a quickie pro/con list for the bw.org version?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:27 AM
> > To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: whois package
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:08:18AM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> > >> 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/
> > 
> > I agree!  I was going to suggest this too.  This is my 
> > favorite by far.
> > 
> > I've installed this on every machine that I maintain.
> > 
> > cgf
> > 
>