TEL 1
NAME
tel, iwhois - look in phone book
SYNOPSIS
tel key ... iwhois name [ \fL@\f2domain ]
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 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.
Iwhois looks up names in the Internet NIC's personnel database. 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
.TF /lib/areacodes
/lib/areacodes Telephone area codes database.
/lib/tel Public telephone number database.
$home/lib/tel Personal telephone number database.
SOURCE
/rc/bin/tel