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TEL(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual TEL(7) NAME tel, telno, dq - phone books SYNOPSIS tel key telno key ... dq DESCRIPTION Tel looks up key in a private telephone book, if it exists, and in a local book Tel is simply a script for grep (see gre(1)), so lookup may be by any part of a name or number. Customarily the local telephone book con- tains names, userids, home numbers, and office numbers of users. It also contains a directory of area codes and miscellaneous people of some general interest. Telno and dq retrieve information from a central, current database of AT&T personnel. The former is a simple one-line interface to the lat- ter. For telno, a key is typically a name. Other fields in the database may be matched by using tabs within the key (the key must be quoted to pro- tect spaces and tabs from the shell). The fields are, in order: name (last; last,first; first last; or payroll account no.) organization (e.g. att or bl) area code and exchange extension location room department electronic mail address Only a prefix of a first name need by given. In some positions (or ...) and may be used as a wild cards as in sh(1). Case is unimpor- tant. Dq provides interactive access to the central database. Under mux(9.1) it is best run in a terminal-simulator layer, either or see term(9.1). It displays a form with the same fields as telno. Fill in one or more fields, using tabs to move (circularly) between them, backspace to erase, and space to delete a field. Upon carriage return a group of answers is displayed. Type instead of a name to get more instructions. EXAMPLES In these examples, represents a literal tab. telno emlin Anyone named Emlin. telno '\t\t\t3744' Anyone whose phone extension is 3744. telno 'e*\t\t\t\t\t\t\tresearch!*' Anyone whose last name begins with E and who gets electronic mail on machine FILES SEE ALSO bellcat in library(7), pq(7) BUGS The algorithm used by dq (and hence telno) to match each field is dis- tinct and unknown to us. Not all entries have electronic mail addresses. TEL(7)