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 Global options
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    The global options of JWHOIS configure some basic facilities that
 are to be used for all hosts and queries made.
 
 `cachefile'
      By default, the location of the cache file is
      `/usr/local/var/jwhois.db', but this can be changed at compile
      time. The option `cachefile' also changes the location.
 
 `cacheexpire'
      The default expire time for all cached objects it 7 days (168
      hours). this can be changed with the `cacheexpire' option. The
      value is the number of hours that objects is considered to be
      current.
 
 `whois-servers-domain'
      Whois-servers.net is a service offered by the CenterGate Research
      Group. They register CNAMEs in the <whois-servers.net> domain for
      every known top-level domain, pointing to the appropriate whois
      server.
 
      When querying for `wildebeest.se' for example, JWHOIS would look
      for an address <se.whois-servers.net> and query the appropriate
      server based on that information.
 
      If you wish to make whois-servers.net-style queries using another
      domain name than <whois-servers.net>, you can change this option
      to the domain name you want.
 
 `browser-pathname'
 
 `browser-stdarg'
 
 `browser-postarg'
      These options control the HTTP support on JWHOIS.
      `browser-pathname' should be set to the path and executable of the
      browser you wish to use to download information from
      HTTP-gateways. This is normally a program such as LYNX or CURL.
 
      `browser-stdarg' sets the arguments to pass to the browser in
      order to have the browser direct its options to the standard
      output. JWHOIS catches this information and displays it to the
      user.
 
      `browser-postarg' sets the arguments used to enable a LYNX-style
      processing of POST requests.  A LYNX-style processing means that
      the program, when passed this option, should accept one variable
      per line of input on standard input, ended with three dashes.
 
    Examples:
 
      cachefile = "/var/lib/jwhois.db";
      cacheexpire = 168;
      browser-pathname = "/usr/bin/lynx";
      browser-stdarg = "-dump";
      browser-postarg = "-post_data";
 

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