GNU InetutilsThis is a distribution of common networking utilities and servers.They are currently mostly from the 4.4BSD-Lite2 distribution, withsome changes to make them compatible with the GNU Hurd (in particular,the Hurd does not define some arbitrary limits, such as MAXPATHLEN),and to make them more portable, using autoconf.  A GNU buildenvironment has also been added.The GNU whois client reads a whois-servers file to figure out whichwhois server to use.  It won't always pick the best server;whois.internic.net seems to know something about nic.ddn.mil, but theGNU whois client will use nic.ddn.mil to look up nic.ddn.mil if youuse the configuration file we supply.  Our configuration file probablyalso does not have a complete list of whois servers; feel free to sendinformation about additional whois servers to the bug reportingaddress.There are probably many BSD dependencies remaining, but inetutils isbelieved to work on the following system types (and others may work):  i486-pc-gnu  i486-pc-linux-gnu  m68k-hp-netbsd1.2  sparc-sun-netbsd1.2The file `paths' contains a list of all paths used by programs in thisdistribution, and rules to find values for them.  To change a pathPATH_FOO, you may either tell configure, by using`--with-path-foo=VALUE' (where VALUE may contain references to makevariables such as `$(bindir)'), or edit the `paths' file.If you wish to build only the clients or only the servers, you maywish to use the --disable-servers or --disable-clients options wheninvoking `configure'.  You can also use --enable-<program> or--disable-<program> to control whether to build individual programs;if you explicitly specify whether to build a program, that willoverride the values specified by --disable-clients or--disable-servers.Notes:1) All the manpages will be installed, regardless of which programs   are built.  The whois server list will also be installed.  You can   use `make install-exec' instead of `make install' if you do not   want to install these files.2) All of the r* commands clients, rcp, rlogin, rsh, need to be   install setuid root to work correctly they use priviledge ports for   communication.Some known deficiencies: o Many programs do not support long options, such as --version or   --help. o The authentication and encryption options have not been tested. o GNU Inetutils does not work on Solaris.  Patches to make GNU   Inetutils work on Solaris are happily accepted.See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.Please send all bug reports to <bug-inetutils@gnu.org>.