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

I am pleased to announce Addressbook 0.6, an addressmanager which
could replace your old rolodex or your old book with all your addresses. 
Addressbook is a program to manage your addresses, phone numbers, 
e-mailaddresses and everything which is now written in your rolodex.

A very short description:
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Title:		Addressbook
Version:	0.6
Entered-date:	22MAR96
Description:	Addressbook is an addressmanager which could replace your
		old paper rolodex. It stores addresses, phone and fax numbers
		and can call some additional programs (like for dialing)
		It has a nice User Interface written in Tcl/Tk
		For more information please look in the WWW:
		http://wwwmayr.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/addressbook/
		If you want to see what it looks like: http://wwwmayr.
		informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/addressbook/screenshot.html
Keywords:	addressbook addressmanager phonebook
Author:		durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Clemens Durka)
Maintained-by:	durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Clemens Durka)
Primary-site:	ftp.leo.org /pub/comp/os/linux/local/apps
		132kB addressbook-0.6.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xapps/rolodex
		132kB addressbook-0.6.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp.aud.alcatel.com /tcl/code
		132kB addressbook-0.6.tar.gz
Platforms:	any platform that supports Tcl/Tk (tested: Linux, HPUX)
Copying-policy: GPL
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What are the features of Addressbook?
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Some features are:

	- Graphical User Interface
	- Multi language support (now english, german, french, dutch)
	- All the addresses are displayed in a listbox
	- The actual address can be edited in a form
	- 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 phonenumber by pressing a button)
	- Standalone perl program for fast search without GUI

Changes 0.5 -> 0.6:

	- Better support for tcl7.4/tk4.0
	- Undo button to undo the last operation
	- Sorting independant of display in listbox
	- Fast loading of 2 addressfiles like private / office
	- Selection of several addresses possible
	- More predefined fields
	- User defined LaTeX printing
	- file locking
	- state field for US users
	- translation to dutch

Future features:

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

Where can I get more information?
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http://wwwmayr.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/addressbook/

or to see, how it looks like:
http://wwwmayr.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/addressbook/screenshot.html

Where can I get Addressbook?
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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/addressbook-[version].tar.gz
and on all their mirrors.

For the latest release, you can check my WWW page:
http://wwwmayr.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~durka/addressbook/
 
What is needed to run Addressbook?
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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 under the actual version tcl7.4 / tk4.0 and as well under
the old version tcl7.3/tk3.6.Support for tk3.6 might be removed in
future versions. tcl/tk is available at ftp://ftp.smli.com/pub/tcl.

This program is tested under:

	- Linux 1.2.13 (i586)    Tcl7.3/Tk3.6 from Slackware 2.3
	- Linux 1.2.13 (i586)    Tcl7.4/Tk4.0 from Slackware 3.0
	- HPUX 9.0x    (HP 7xx)

It is reported to work as well under:

	- HPUX 10.x    (HP 7xx)
	- SunOS 4.x.x  (Sun Sparc)
	- Solaris 2.4  (Sun Sparc)
	- OSF/1 3.0    (DEC Alpha)
	- AIX 3.2      (IBM Power Risc)
	- Irix 5.3     (SGI)


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