From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nospam@nospam.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Whois Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:14:23 +0100 Organization: Arcor Message-ID: <878vzuj7y8.fsf@vfst.de> References: <874oanqbbc.fsf@vfst.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292260198 28513 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2010 17:09:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:09:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 13 18:09:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSBuL-0007Fk-4l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:09:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSBuK-0002u6-1t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:09:52 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!news2.euro.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news.netcologne.de!ramfeed1.netcologne.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.90 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gh9ig0T8v9X79cxVKR7Fhpbs4aU= Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Dec 2010 11:14:24 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80ed9cad.newsspool3.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=a24UW?F076McF=Q^Z^V384Fo<]lROoR18kF List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77454 Archived-At: Hilary writes: >>> Is it possible to configure the inbuilt whois command on emacs win32? >>> I've scoured all of the documentation I can find and have found not a >>> word about it. >>> >>> As an alternative, and as I have a working gnuwin jwhois command, can >>> I redefine the inbuilt whois to shell-command it? >> >> >> M-x customize-group RET net-utils RET >> >> Martin >> -- >> parozusa at web dot de > > Thanks. It would have taken me a *long* time to find that! M-x describe-function RET whois RET tells you that whois is part of that file / package. Also very useful the family of apropos commands. M-x apropos-command RET ^apropos RET Martin -- parozusa at web dot de