[db-wg] whois -B -G

Recompile whois client to the one ripe has been handing or force your
whois client to send query prepended with -B and -G in raw form (might 
have to enclose in quotes). If you're using jwhois try:
  jwhois -h whois.ripe.net -a -- "-B -G 147.28.160.0/19"

If not output of 'whois --version; would help to know what you need to do.

P.S. I think it was quite stupid for RIPE to have chosen '-?' as
way to send options to whois server on the protocol level....

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Randy Bush wrote:

> ok, what is the normal way to get around this?
>
> freebsd 7-current
>
> % whois -h whois.ripe.net -B -G 147.28.160.0/19
> whois: illegal option -- B
> usage: whois [-aAbdgiIklmQrR6] [-c country-code | -h hostname] [-p port] name ...
>
> randy