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1.1     ! root        1: .TH TEL 7
        !             2: .CT 1 inst_info
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: tel, telno, dq \- phone books
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B tel
        !             7: .I key
        !             8: .PP
        !             9: .B telno
        !            10: .I key ...
        !            11: .PP
        !            12: .B dq
        !            13: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            14: .I Tel
        !            15: looks up
        !            16: .I key
        !            17: in a private telephone book,
        !            18: .FR $HOME/lib/tel ,
        !            19: if it exists,
        !            20: and in a local book
        !            21: .FR /usr/lib/tel .
        !            22: .PP
        !            23: .I Tel
        !            24: is simply a script for
        !            25: .IR grep 
        !            26: (see
        !            27: .IR gre (1)),
        !            28: so lookup may be by any part of a name or number.
        !            29: Customarily the local telephone book contains names, userids,
        !            30: home numbers, and office numbers of users.
        !            31: It also contains a directory of area codes and miscellaneous
        !            32: people of some general interest.
        !            33: .PP
        !            34: .I Telno
        !            35: and
        !            36: .I dq
        !            37: retrieve information from a central, current database
        !            38: of AT&T personnel.
        !            39: The former is a simple one-line interface to the latter.
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: For
        !            42: .I telno,
        !            43: a
        !            44: .I key
        !            45: is typically a name.
        !            46: Other fields in the database may be matched by using tabs 
        !            47: within the key (the key
        !            48: must be quoted to protect spaces and tabs from the shell).
        !            49: The fields are, in order:
        !            50: .IP
        !            51: .nf
        !            52: name (last; last,first; first last; or payroll account no.)
        !            53: organization (e.g. att or bl)
        !            54: area code and exchange
        !            55: extension
        !            56: location
        !            57: room
        !            58: department
        !            59: electronic mail address
        !            60: .fi
        !            61: .LP
        !            62: Only a prefix of a first name need by given.
        !            63: In some positions
        !            64: .L *
        !            65: (or
        !            66: .BR ... )
        !            67: and
        !            68: .L ?
        !            69: may be used as a wild cards as in 
        !            70: .IR sh (1).
        !            71: Case is unimportant.
        !            72: .PP
        !            73: .I Dq
        !            74: provides interactive access to the central database.
        !            75: Under
        !            76: .IR mux (9.1)
        !            77: it is best run
        !            78: in a terminal-simulator layer, either
        !            79: .L "term 5620
        !            80: or
        !            81: .LR "term 2621" ;
        !            82: see
        !            83: .IR term (9.1).
        !            84: It displays a form with the same fields as
        !            85: .I telno.
        !            86: Fill in one or more fields, using tabs to move (circularly) between them,
        !            87: backspace to erase, and space
        !            88: to delete a field.
        !            89: Upon carriage return a group of answers is displayed.
        !            90: Type
        !            91: .L ?
        !            92: instead of a name to get more instructions.
        !            93: .SH EXAMPLES
        !            94: In these examples,
        !            95: .L \et
        !            96: represents a literal tab.
        !            97: .TP
        !            98: .L
        !            99: telno emlin
        !           100: Anyone named Emlin.
        !           101: .TP
        !           102: .L
        !           103: telno '\et\et\et3744'
        !           104: Anyone whose phone extension is 3744.
        !           105: .TP
        !           106: .L
        !           107: telno 'e*\et\et\et\et\et\et\etresearch!*'
        !           108: Anyone whose last name begins with E and
        !           109: who gets electronic mail on machine
        !           110: .LR research .
        !           111: .SH FILES
        !           112: .FR $HOME/lib/tel
        !           113: .br
        !           114: .F /usr/lib/tel
        !           115: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           116: .I bellcat
        !           117: in
        !           118: .IR library (7),
        !           119: .IR pq (7)
        !           120: .SH BUGS
        !           121: The algorithm used by
        !           122: .I dq
        !           123: (and hence
        !           124: .IR telno )
        !           125: to match each field is distinct and unknown to us.
        !           126: .br
        !           127: Not all entries have electronic mail addresses.

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