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1.1       root        1: .TH TEL 1
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: tel, iwhois \- look in phone book
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B tel
                      6: .I key ...
                      7: .br
                      8: .B iwhois
                      9: .IR name [ \fL@\f2domain ]
                     10: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     11: .I Tel
                     12: looks up
                     13: .I key
                     14: in a private telephone book,
                     15: .BR $home/lib/tel ,
                     16: and in the public telephone book,
                     17: .BR /lib/tel .
                     18: It uses
                     19: .IR grep
                     20: (with the
                     21: .B -i
                     22: option to ignore case differences), so the key may be any part of a
                     23: name or number.  Customarily, the telephone book contains names,
                     24: userids, home numbers, and office numbers of users.  It also contains
                     25: a directory of area codes and miscellaneous people of general
                     26: interest.
                     27: .PP
                     28: .I Iwhois
                     29: looks up names in the Internet NIC's personnel database.
                     30: .I Name
                     31: should be a surname optionally followed by a comma and given name.
                     32: A different server can be chosen by appending to the name an
                     33: .B @
                     34: followed by the server's domain name.
                     35: .SH FILES
                     36: .TF /lib/tel
                     37: .TP
                     38: .B /lib/tel
                     39: Public telephone number database.
                     40: .SH SOURCE
                     41: .B /rc/bin/tel
                     42: .br
                     43: .B /rc/bin/iwhois

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