telnet interface

  > "Dale S. Johnson" <dsj at merit.edu> writes:
  > 
  > Well, as a developer I *never* use email--running dbupdate is so much
  > more direct (even when the size of my mailbox is under a thousand).
  > I haven't thought the details through, but a user dbupdate client
  > that he could use the same way I do:
  > 
  >      #!/bin/dwim
  >      whois XXX > tmp
  >      vi tmp
  >      dbupdate tmp
  > 
  > would seem to be pretty easy to build, including the PGP stuff.  

We have implemented it as a function in whoisd since that has all
the necessary stuff already.  Now you can accuse me of 
creeping featurism. ;-)

Daniel



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