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+.TH WHOIS 1 "15 April 1998" GNO "Commands and Applications"
+.SH NAME
+.BR whois
+\- Internet user name directory service
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.BR whois
+.RB [ -h
+.IR hostname ]
+.IR name " ..."
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.BR Whois
+looks up records in the Network Information Center (NIC) database.
+.LP
+The options are as follows:
+.IP \fB-h\fR
+Use the specified host instead of the default NIC (nic.ddn.mil).
+.LP
+The operands specified to
+.BR whois
+are concatenated together (separated by white-space) and presented to
+the
+.BR whois
+server.
+.LP
+The default action, unless directed otherwise with a special
+.BR name ,
+is to do a very broad search, looking for matches to
+.BR name
+in all types of records and most fields (name, nicknames, hostname, net
+address, etc.) in the database.
+For more information as to what
+.BR name
+operands have special meaning, and how to guide the search, use
+the special name
+.IR help .
+.SH SEE ALSO
+RFC 812: Nicname/Whois
+.SH HISTORY
+The
+.BR whois
+command appeared in 4.3BSD.