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			      Addressbook 0.6
			============================
			      by Clemens Durka
		      (durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)

				  README

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

Addressbook is a program to manage your addresses, phone numbers,
e-mail addresses 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/


Where can I get Addressbook?
----------------------------

For the latest release, you can always check my WWW page: 
http://wwwmayr.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/addressbook/ 

The last public release is available at the following sites:
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/linux/local/apps/addressbook-[version].tar.gz
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/rolodex/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 instructions.
MANUAL		for information on how to use


What are the features of Addressbook?
-------------------------------------

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 programs can be called with contents of some fields
	  (so you can dial a phone number by pressing a button)
	- Standalone perl program for fast search without GUI

For the Changes to older releases check the file CHANGES


What is the actual version of Addressbook?
------------------------------------------

The actual version of Addressbook is probably 0.6 from 22.03.1996.
Look in my WWW page to find information about it and maybe a newer
version.


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.
This program runs as well under the old version tcl7.3/tk3.6 and the
actual version tcl7.4 / tk4.0. If you don't have tcl/tk yet, please
get the new version, as the support for tk3.6 might be removed in
future versions.

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 program is tested under:

	- Linux 1.2.1  (i486)    Tcl7.3/Tk3.6 from Slackware 2.3
	- Linux 1.2.13 (i486)    Tcl7.4/Tk4.0 from Slackware 3.0
	- HPUX 9.0x    (HP 7xx)

It is reported to work as well under:

	- SunOS 4.x.x  (Sparc 10)
	- Solaris 2.4  (Sparc 20)
	- OSF/1 3.0    (DEC Alpha)
	- AIX 3.2      (IBM Power Risc)
	- Irix 5.3     (SGI)

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

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

ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/ftp.smli.com/tcl7.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/ftp.smli.com/tk4.0.tar.gz

binaries for Linux:

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/tcl/tcl7.4p2-1.bin.tar.gz
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/tcl/tk4.0p2-1.bin.tar.gz


How can I contact the author?
-----------------------------

As I'm continuing the development, I welcome any questions, comments, 
suggestions, complaints, assistance etc.
If you find it so useful, 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
file REGISTRATION.

You can reach me:

email: durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de   or   clemens@cle.joker.de
WWW:   http://wwwmayr.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/


Who else contributed to this package?
-------------------------------------

Thanks to LEA (Lehrstuhl fuer Effiziente Algorithmen) of the Technical
University of Munich and especially to Prof. Dr. E. Mayr.
During a job, I do for them, I wrote this program.

Thanks to all the people who sended bug reports or made suggestions.
Thanks especially to Andre Koster <scott@luna.nl> for the translation to
dutch and to Stephen Mueller <stephen@sei.com> for testing and finding bugs.

Clemens Durka