On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Daniel Woods wrote:
> Linux comes with "fwhois", the finger style whois.
> Where can I get the RPM or source code for the good old
> Unix style whois so I can use ...
>     whois [-h whois.host] hostname
> 
> Thanks... Dan.

I use bw-whois, which has the advantage of being a perl script: I could
customize it if I wished to. It is available in RPM.

ccurley@charlesc # rpm -qa | grep -i whois
bw-whois-2.3-1
ccurley@charlesc $ whois
BW whois 2.3 by Bill Weinman <http://bw.org/>
Copyright 1999-2000 William E. Weinman
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