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o Remove examples from throughout the manual.

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o Create an EXAMPLES section.
o In some places change "ru" to "RU" to be consistent.

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.\" From: @(#)whois.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd August 5, 2001
.Dd September 4, 2001
.Dt WHOIS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ It contains network numbers used in those parts of the world covered neither by
.Tn APNIC
nor by
.Tn RIPE .
Contact (handle) information should be looked up by appending
.Qq Li -ARIN
to the NIC handle:
.Pp
.Dl "$ whois -a foo3-ARIN"
(Hint: All point of contact handles in the
.Tn ARIN
whois database end with
.Qq Li -ARIN . )
.Pp
.It Fl A
Use the Asia/Pacific Network Information Center
@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ constructs the name of a whois server to use from the top-level domain
of the supplied (single) argument, and appending
.Qq Li .whois-servers.net .
This effectively allows a suitable whois server to be selected
automatically for a large number of TLDs.
automatically for a large number of
.Tn TLDs .
.Pp
In the event that an IP
address is specified, the whois server will default to the American
@ -139,11 +140,13 @@ is no longer handled by Network Solutions, Inc.
For details, see
.Pa http://www.internic.net/ .
.Pp
Contact (handle) information should be looked up by prefixing
(Hint: Contact information, identified by the term
.Em handle ,
can be looked up by prefixing
.Qq Li "handle "
to the NIC handle in the querry:
.Pp
.Dl "$ whois -i 'handle foo3'"
to the
.Tn NIC
handle in the query.)
.Pp
.It Fl m
Use the Route Arbiter Database
@ -181,7 +184,7 @@ for subdomains of
This option is deprecated; use the
.Fl c
option with an argument of
.Qq ru
.Qq Li RU
instead.
.It Fl 6
Use the IPv6 Resource Center
@ -208,6 +211,57 @@ For more information as to what
operands have special meaning, and how to guide the search, use
the special name
.Dq Li help .
.Sh EXAMPLES
Most types of data, such as domain names and
.Tn IP
addresses, can be used as arguments to
.Nm
without any options, and
.Nm
will choose the correct whois server to query.
Some exceptions, where
.Nm
will not be able to handled data correctly, are detailed below.
.Pp
To obtain contact information about an
administrator located in the Russian
.Tn TLD
domain
.Qq Li RU ,
use the
.Fl c
option as shown in the following example, where
.Ar CONTACT-ID
is substituted with the actual contact identifier.
.Pp
.Dl "whois -c RU CONTACT-ID"
.Pp
(Note: This example is specific to the
.Tn TLD
.Qq Li RU ,
but other
.Tn TLDs
can be queried by using a similar syntax.)
.Pp
The following example demonstrates how to obtain information about an
.Tn IPv6
address or hostname using the
.Fl 6
option, which directs the query to
.Tn 6bone .
.Pp
.Dl "whois -6 IPv6-IP-Address"
.Pp
The following example demonstrates how to query
a whois server using a non-standard port, where
.Dq Li query-data
is the query to be sent to
.Dq Li non-existent.host
on port
.Dq Li rwhois
(written numerically as 4321).
.Pp
.Dl "whois -h non-existent.host -p rwhois query-data"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Rs
.%A Ken Harrenstien