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diff --git a/sys/man/1/tel b/sys/man/1/tel new file mode 100755 index 000000000..69bc37331 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys/man/1/tel @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +.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/areacodes +.TP +.B /lib/areacodes +Telephone area codes database. +.TP +.B /lib/tel +Public telephone number database. +.TP +.B $home/lib/tel +Personal telephone number database. +.SH SOURCE +.B /rc/bin/tel +.br +.B /rc/bin/iwhois |
