TEL(1) TEL(1)
NAME
tel, iwhois - look in phone book
SYNOPSIS
tel key ...
iwhois name[@domain]
DESCRIPTION
Tel looks up key in a private telephone book, $home/lib/tel,
and in the public telephone book, /lib/tel. It uses grep
(with the -i option to ignore case differences), so the key
may be any part of a name or number. Customarily, the tele-
phone 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.
Iwhois looks up names in the Internet NIC's personnel data-
base. 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 @ followed by the server's domain
name.
FILES
/lib/areacodes Telephone area codes database.
/lib/tel Public telephone number database.
$home/lib/tel Personal telephone number database.
SOURCE
/rc/bin/tel
/rc/bin/iwhois
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