NAME

tel, pq − look in phone book

SYNOPSIS

­tel ­key ... 
­pq ­name ... 

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. 

­Pq looks up names in the AT&T personnel database.  ­Name should be a surname optionally prefixed by initials and periods, as in ­emlin or ­g.emlin or g.r.emlin.  ­Pq also accepts keyword arguments of the form key=value.  ­Key may be one of ­org for organization number, ­ext or ­tel for office telephone extension, or ­room for office number.  Beware that ­= must be quoted when passed through rc(1).

FILES

­/lib/tel
Public telephone number database.

Plan 9  —  January 03, 1993