
			      Addressbook 0.5
			============================
			      by Clemens Durka
		      (durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)

				  README

What is Addressbook?
--------------------

Addressbook is a programm to manage your addresses, phone numbers,
e-mailaddresses and everything which is now written in your rolodex.
Addressbook is copyrighted by Clemens Durka, but available under the GNU GPL.


Where can I get more information?
---------------------------------

Look at the World Wide Web at

http://wwwmayr.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/addressbook/index.html


Where can I get Addressbook?
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Addressbook is copylefted under the GNU GPL.

Addressbook is available at:

ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/linux/local/apps/addressbook-[version].tar.gz
ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/os/linux/local/apps/addressbook-[version].tar.gz

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/rolodex/addressbook-[version].tar.gz
or 
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/addressbook-[version].tar.gz

ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/code/addresbook-[version].tar.gz


How to install and use Addressbook?
-----------------------------------

Please read the following files:

INSTALL		for installation instruction.
MANUAL		for information how to use


What are the features of Addressbook?
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Some features are:

	- Graphical User Interface
	- Easy multi language support (now english, german, french)
	- All the addresses are displayed in a listbox
	- The actual address can be edited in a form
	- Freely configurable fields contents
	- fast search by typing the first letters of a name
	- search configurable for regular expression, matching or exact
	- External programms can be called with contents of some fields
	  (so you can dial a phonenumber by pressing a button)
	- Standalone perl programm for fast search without GUI

Changes to version 0.4:

	- Some ways of printing lists of addresses
	- Support for tcl7.4/tk4.0
	- Deleting addresses is possible
	- Userdefined fields

Future features:

	- More ways and better printing
	- Export and import from databases
	- Add more languages (if some volunteer translates)


What is the actual version of Addressbook?
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The actual version of Addressbook is 0.5 from 28.05.1995.

As I received almost no bug reports, the program is considered to
be a beta version. It is useable, most thinks work, but there
may be some bugs left and some features are not perfectly
implemented. If you find some bugs, errors or missing features,
please drop me a mail. I'm working on it, so I may help you. 


What is needed to run Addressbook?
----------------------------------

Addressbook is based on Tcl/Tk, so you need a machine where Tcl/Tk
is running. For most Unix like machines, Tcl/Tk is available.
To check, if you already have Tcl/Tk, try to find 'wish', the
Tcl/Tk interpreter used. (like 'which wish' or 'type wish').
If you use Linux, the Tcl/Tk included in slackware works fine.
This programm is tested under:

	- Linux 1.2.1    Tcl/Tk from slackware
	- HPUX 9.01


Where can I get Tcl/Tk?
-----------------------

Tcl/Tk is available at following sites and their mirrors:

ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/tcl7.3.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/tk3.6.tar.gz

binaries for Linux:

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/tcl/tcl7.3l1-bin.tar.gz
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/tcl/tk3.6p1l2-bin.tar.gz


How can I contact the author?
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As I'm continuing the developement, I welcome any questions, comments, 
suggestions, complaints, assistance etc.
If you find it so usefull, that you will install and use it, please
drop me mail, so that I know aproximately the number of users and I
can notify you of new versions. For a form you could use, see the
INSTALL file at the end.

You can reach me:

email: durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
WWW:   http://wwwmayr.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/
irc:   Clemens  (at least sometimes)

Clemens Durka
