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 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
/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