plan9 man page for tel

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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/tel
	      Public telephone number database.

SOURCE
       /rc/bin/tel
       /rc/bin/iwhois

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