I second the "thank you, Stan!". whois works great.

Anyone figure out though why the man page does not work? I am a shell
neophyte, but it certainly appears there may be a bug in the shell. If you
copy whois.1 into /usr/local/man/cat1, then

        man whois

displays the file whois.1 as is (as I understand it, files in
/usr/local/man/cat1 are assumed to be already formatted, while files in
/usr/local/man/man1 are assumed to be in troff format containing formatting
tags). whois.1 appears to be correctly set up with formatting tags.

As another test, I added some text to /usr/local/man/man1/whois.1 bracketed
by the ".HS" and ".HE" descriptors.

        help whois

is supposed to display this text, but instead returns "No information on
whois".

Anyone else have a thought as to what is going on here?

John Burke
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hi all!

ok....stan and i are out of ideas....  i got the 'std' whois
package from allegro.  (thank you, stan!)  everything went
smoothly until i tried to do 'man whois'.  i get this weird
message....

/usr/local/man: man whois
ts: not found

...and then the screen goes blank.  the file seems to be
intact.  the permissions on /usr/local/man, ../man1 and
whois.1 are ok.  man, in general, seems to work.  any
ideas?             - d

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