TEL(1) TEL(1)
NAME
tel, pq - look in phone book
SYNOPSIS
tel key ...
pq name ...
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.
Pq looks up names in the AT&T personnel database. Name
should be a surname optionally prefixed by initials and
periods, as in emlin or g.emlin or g.r.emlin. Pq also
accepts keyword arguments of the form key=value. Key may be
one of org for organization number, ext or tel for office
telephone extension, or room for office number. Beware that
= must be quoted when passed through rc(1).
FILES
/lib/tel Public telephone number database.
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