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

Plan 9  —  February 17, 2003