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