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1.1       root        1: .TH TELNO 7
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: telno \- retrieve from bell labs phone book
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B telno
                      6: [
                      7: .I datum ... datum
                      8: ]
                      9: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     10: .PP
                     11: If there are no arguments on the command line,
                     12: .I telno
                     13: reads its arguments, one to a line,
                     14: from the standard input.
                     15: Arguments are names,
                     16: phone numbers,
                     17: or organization numbers,
                     18: possibly preceded by a keyword and an equal sign.
                     19: The first character of a name must be a letter,
                     20: of a phone number or organization number a digit.
                     21: Otherwise regular expressions
                     22: .I a la
                     23: .IR grep (1)
                     24: are accepted.
                     25: Names are prefixes of last names, or the last name followed
                     26: by a comma and one initial.
                     27: .PP
                     28: Giving a name, a phone number, or an organization number
                     29: .I (org=127)
                     30: produces
                     31: white pages information.
                     32: .SH SEE ALSO
                     33: .IR tel (7)
                     34: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     35: .I too long
                     36: means that the given name has more letters than any
                     37: name in the phone book.
                     38: (All the names are truncated to 8 characters before the data
                     39: arrives on the machine.)
                     40: .I None
                     41: is printed when there are no matches.
                     42: .SH BUGS
                     43: The phone book is badly out of date.

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