                        rwhois-client-1.6.0a1


This is the next major release of the the RWhois 1.5 C client library.
It includes the following major changes from the previous (1.5a1)
release:

* C library and command line client have been largely reworked for
  memory cleanliness.
* Referral chasing has been added.
* IPv6 compatiblity has been added (by Yuji Sekiya
  <sekiya@ISI.EDU>). See README.ipv6.
* GNU Autoconf (also by Yuji Sekiya, although modified by myself).
* Data structures and API have changed somewhat to accomodate referral 
  chasing and to simplify some of the syntax.
* Many of the half-baked or little used functions have been removed
  (-register directive stuff, -define, etc.).

Please note that this software is still alpha quality, in that it has
only been lightly tested so far.



This package consists of two parts:

librwhois.a: The client library itself which can be used to interface 
	     your application with an RWhois server or write your own
             client.

rwhois:      This is a command line client that currently only does
	     queries, although it does follow referrals.



BUILDING



To build the package:

./configure
make
make install



API DOCUMENTATION



See ./lib-src/rwhois.h for documentation on the individual functions
and data structures.


If you have any problems please send mail to rwhois-bugs@rwhois.net.
