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From: M Taylor <mctylr@privacy.nb.ca>
Subject: Re: On line Callbook service
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:06:56 +0100
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:40:56AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > 
> > Any  "telnet xxx <call>"  sites?
> > 
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> I don't know of any which are quite that simple.  'telnet
> callsign.ualr.edu 2000' or 'telnet wm7d.net 5000' will connect you to
> interactive servers for the FCC database.  Either of these would be easy

Using HTTP servers may also be of interest with command line tools
such as wget, curl, lynx, elinks, Perl's LWP.

e.g. wget http://www.rac.ca/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rac/callbook?QueryText=ve3tix&QueryType=call&perpage=25
or whatever to retrive data from QRZ.com (or rac.ca/callbook).