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© 1995, 1996 Clemens Durka

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 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/apps/databases/addressbook-[version].tar.gz ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/code/addressbook-[version].tar.gz

How do I install and use Addressbook?

  • INSTALL Here is the installation instruction.
  • MANUAL Here is the manual.
  • SCREENSHOT Here is a screenshot.

    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 CHANGES

    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 1.2.8 (i486) Tcl7.3/Tk3.6 from Slackware 2.3
  • Linux 1.2.13 (i586) Tck7.4/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 (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 ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/programming/languages/tcl/distrib/tcl7.4.tar.gz ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/programming/languages/tcl/distrib/tk4.0.tar.gz

    binaries for Linux:
    ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/tcl/tcl7.4p2-1.bin.tar.gz
    ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/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:

    durka@informatik.tu-muenchen.de or clemens@cle.joker.de
    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 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.

    Questions, comments, suggestions, complaints, assistance.

    Clemens Durka, 22.03.1996