RWHOIS(1)

NAME
rwhois - Command line client for the RWhois Protocol

SYNOPSIS
rwhois [-s Host] [-p Port] -l [-d Level]

rwhois [-s Host] [-p Port] -c [-d Level] [authority-area] [classes]

rwhois [-s Host] [-p Port] -k [-d Level] [authority-area] [schema-names]

rwhois [-s Host] [-p Port] -a [-d Level] [authority-area]

rwhois [-s Host] [-p Port] [-d Level] [-h hit-limit] [-r] query

DESCRIPTION
RWhois accesses data using the RWhois protocol. The client will access preformatted records on a RWhois server and return them based on either the query or the type of directive specified by other arguments.

OPTIONS
Options given on the command line override defaults specified at compile time. Some options do not need an argument.

-l
    Return the current status of the server.

-c
    Return information the available classes for the given authority area. If no classes are specified then all classes are returned. If classes are specified then information for those classes only is returned.

-a
    Return Start of Authority information for the specified authority area. If no authority area is specified then all of the authority areas for the specified server will be returned.

-k
    Return the Schema information for the given class and authority area. If no class is specified then the schema information for all classes will be returned.

-d level
    Set the debug level to level in order to print out successively verbose debug messages. The range is from 1 to 9 with 9 being the most verbose.

-h limit
    Set the limit on the number of hits to limit.

-s host
    Set the server to contact to host.

-p port
    Set the port to contact on the host to port.

-r
    Do not follow referrals.

-?
    Print the usage.

BUGS
Please send any bugs to rwhois-bugs@rwhois.net.