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.TH TEL 1 .SH NAME tel, iwhois \- look in phone book .SH SYNOPSIS .B tel .I key ... .PP .B iwhois .IR name [ \fL@\f2domain ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Tel looks up .I key in a private telephone book, .BR $home/lib/tel , and in the public telephone book, .BR /lib/tel . It uses .IR grep (with the .B -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. .PP .I Iwhois looks up names in the Internet NIC's personnel database. .I 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 .B @ followed by the server's domain name. .SH FILES .TF /lib/areacodes .TP .B /lib/areacodes Telephone area codes database. .TP .B /lib/tel Public telephone number database. .TP .B $home/lib/tel Personal telephone number database. .SH SOURCE .B /rc/bin/tel .br .B /rc/bin/iwhois