term% cat index.txt TELNO(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual 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 argu‐
ments, 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 ex‐
pressions 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) pro‐
duces 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The phone book is badly out of date.
TELNO(7)