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<H5 align="center">&copy; 1995, 1996, 1997
<A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~clemens/">Clemens Durka</A>
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Latest version of this page at: <A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~addressbook/">
http://home.pages.de/~addressbook/</A>
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<b>News about Addressbook?</b>
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Addressbook 0.7 has been released the 02.11.1997. In this version
I merged contributions I received from users like support for more
languages.
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<b>What is Addressbook?</b>
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Addressbook is a program to manage your addresses, phone numbers,
e-mailaddresses and everything which is now written in your rolodex. 
Addressbook is copyrighted by <A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~clemens/">
Clemens Durka</A>, but available under the GNU GPL.
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<b>Where can I get the program?</b>
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For the latest release, you can always check my WWW page:
<A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~addressbook/">http://home.pages.de/~addressbook/</A>
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The last public release is available at the following sites:
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/linux/local/apps/addressbook-0.7.tar.gz">
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/linux/local/apps/addressbook-[version].tar.gz</A>
<A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/rolodex/addressbook-0.7.tar.gz">
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/rolodex/addressbook-[version].tar.gz</A>
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/tcl/code/addressbook-0.7.tar.gz">
ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/tcl/code/addressbook-[version].tar.gz</A>
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<b>How do I install and use Addressbook?</b>
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<LI><A HREF="install.html">INSTALL</A>	Here is the installation instruction.
<LI><A HREF="manual.html">MANUAL</A>	Here is the manual.
<LI><A HREF="screenshot.html">SCREENSHOT</A>	Here is a screenshot.
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<b>What are the features of Addressbook?</b>
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Some features are:
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<LI> Graphical User Interface
<LI> Multi language support (now english, german, french, dutch, swedish, finnish)
<LI> All the addresses are displayed in a listbox
<LI> The actual address can be edited in a form
<LI> Configurable fields contents
<LI> fast search by typing the first letters of a name
<LI> search configurable for regular expression, matching or exact
<LI> External programs can be called with contents of some fields
	  (so you can dial a phonenumber by pressing a button)
<LI> Standalone perl program for fast search without GUI
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Future features:
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<LI> More ways and better printing
<LI> Export and import from databases
<LI> Add more languages (if some volunteer translates)
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<b>What is needed to run Addressbook?</b>
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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 should run under any version from tcl7.3/tk3.6 to the
actual version (tcl7.6 / tk4.2). 
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This program is tested under:<BR>
<LI> Linux 1.2.13 (i586)    Tcl7.3/Tk3.6 from Slackware 2.3
<LI> Linux 1.2.13 (i586)    Tcl7.4/Tk4.0 from Slackware 3.0
<LI> Linux 2.0.29 (i586)    Tcl7.6/Tk4.2 from Debian 1.3
<LI> HPUX 9.0x    (HP 7xx)
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It is reported to work as well under:
<LI> HPUX 10.x    (HP 7xx)
<LI> SunOS 4.x.x  (Sun Sparc)
<LI> Solaris 2.4  (Sun Sparc)
<LI> OSF/1 3.0    (DEC Alpha)
<LI> AIX 3.2      (IBM Power Risc)
<LI> Irix 5.3     (SGI)
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<b>Who else contributed to this package?</b>
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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.
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Thanks a lot 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. 
Thanks to Martin Paul (Martin.Paul@par.univie.ac.at) for contributing
the mktable program for better printing.
Thanks to all the translators for finnish (Jarmo Karvonen), swedish
(Peter Antman) and italian (Andrea Borgia).
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<b>Anything else?</b>
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Questions, comments, suggestions, complaints, assistance:<BR>
<A HREF="mailto:clemens@dagobah.de?subject=addressbook">clemens@dagobah.de</A>, subject should begin with "addressbook".
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<A HREF="http://home.pages.de/~clemens/">
<EM>Clemens Durka</EM></A>, 02.11.1997
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