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- .TH TEL 1
- .SH NAME
- tel, iwhois \- look in phone book
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B tel
- .I key ...
- .PP
- .B iwhois
- .IR name [ \fL@\f2domain ]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .I Tel
- looks up
- .I key
- in a private telephone book,
- .BR $home/lib/tel ,
- and in the public telephone book,
- .BR /lib/tel .
- It uses
- .IR grep
- (with the
- .B -i
- option to ignore case differences), so the key may be any part of a
- name or number. Customarily, the telephone book contains names,
- userids, home numbers, and office numbers of users. It also contains
- a directory of area codes and miscellaneous people of general
- interest.
- .PP
- .I Iwhois
- looks up names in the Internet NIC's personnel database.
- .I Name
- should be a surname optionally followed by a comma and given name.
- A different server can be chosen by appending to the name an
- .B @
- followed by the server's domain name.
- .SH FILES
- .TF /lib/tel
- .TP
- .B /lib/tel
- Public telephone number database.
- .SH SOURCE
- .B /rc/bin/tel
- .br
- .B /rc/bin/iwhois
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