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> have you tried placing the -lsocket behind the whois.c parameter,
> i.e. "gcc -D_SOCKET_SOURCE -L/usr/lib -o whois whois.c -lsocket" ??

Eureka!

A clean compile with no unresolved externals at runtime.

However, not the results I was expecting either:

**** Instruction memory protection (TRAPS 57).
ABORT: /usr/contrib/src/whois
NM SYS   a.fff7f000 $RECOVER_END[1]
  1770470       Illegal instruction     ./whois
+ Done (132) ./whois cccd.edu >/tmp/whois.txt 2>&1

(The above is somewhat mangled by the MPE sh output redirection, but you get
the idea.)

> By the way, nice to see more "porting efforts" being started :-)

Well, someone's got to do the dirty work (he said, feeling rather cocky about
debugging other people's code in the UMich LDAP distribution....).
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