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From: milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Is there a WHOIS for HP-UX?
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Date: 9 Mar 90 18:14:10 GMT
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In article <3770044@hpclove.HP.COM> campbelr@hpclove.HP.COM (Bob Campbell) writes:
>I am not sure what the functionality of whois is, but read the
>man page for finger and see if that meets your needs.

Whois is quite distinct from finger. Whois makes a request to the NIC,
searching the nic's database for registered users. It is sometimes quite
useful as a tool to find those responsible for major sites.

For instance:

  me10:milburn 1 %)) whois sde.hp.com
  Hewlett Packard (SDE3)
  
     Hostname: SDE.HP.COM
     Address: 15.255.152.2
     System: HP-9000/840 running HP-UX
  
     Coordinator:
        Laubach, Mark  (ML2)  laubach@HP.COM
        (408) 447-1145
  
     domain server
  
     Record last updated on 10-Nov-89.
  
     There is one registered user:
  
  Laubach, Mark (ML2)		laubach@HP.COM			(408) 447-1145
  
  To single out one record, look it up with "!xxx", where xxx is the
  handle, shown in parenthesis following the name, which comes first.
  

-jem
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