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     TELNO(7)                                                 TELNO(7)

     NAME
          telno - retrieve from Bell Labs phone book

     SYNOPSIS
          telno [ datum ... datum ]

     DESCRIPTION
          If there are no arguments on the command line, telno reads
          its arguments, one to a line, from the standard input.
          Arguments are names, phone numbers, or organization numbers,
          possibly preceded by a keyword and an equal sign.  The first
          character of a name must be a letter, of a phone number or
          organization number a digit.  Otherwise regular expressions
          a la grep(1) are accepted.  Names are prefixes of last
          names, or the last name followed by a comma and one initial.

          Giving a name, a phone number, or an organization number
          (org=127) produces white pages information.

     SEE ALSO
          tel(7)

     DIAGNOSTICS
          too long means that the given name has more letters than any
          name in the phone book.  (All the names are truncated to 8
          characters before the data arrives on the machine.)  None is
          printed when there are no matches.

     BUGS
          The phone book is badly out of date.