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     TEL(7)                                                     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 contains names, userids, home numbers, and
          office numbers of users.  It also contains a directory of
          area codes and miscellaneous people of some general inter-
          est.

          Telno and dq retrieve information from a central, current
          database of AT&T personnel.  The former is a simple one-line
          interface to the latter.

          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 protect 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 posi-
          tions `*' (or ...)  and `?'  may be used as a wild cards as
          in sh(1). Case is unimportant.

          Dq provides interactive access to the central database.
          Under mux(9.1) it is best run in a terminal-simulator layer,
          either `term 5620' or `term 2621'; see term(9.1). It dis-
          plays 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 car-
          riage return a group of answers is displayed.  Type `?'

     TEL(7)                                                     TEL(7)

          instead of a name to get more instructions.

     EXAMPLES
          In these examples, `\t' 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 elec-
               tronic mail on machine `research'.

     FILES
     SEE ALSO
          bellcat in library(7), pq(7)

     BUGS
          The algorithm used by dq (and hence telno) to match each
          field is distinct and unknown to us.
          Not all entries have electronic mail addresses.