ABOOK by JH ----- Abook is an addressbook program with mutt mail client support. COMPILATION To compile abook you must have ncurses developement libraries installed. Starting from version 0.4.10 abook is know to compile with the native curses library of SUN Solaris and OpenBSD. If you compile with --enable-debug flag you should run abook like this: abook 2> debug or abook 2> /dev/null. Abook 0.4.8 has been compiled and tested successfully on following platforms: Linux (Debian GNU/Linux 2.1, RedHat 6.1) FreeBSD 3.3 Solaris 2.5 / 2.6 (thanks Michael Wiedmann) AIX 3.2.5 (tested by Brian Salter-Duke) DEC alpha ? (tested by Brian Salter-Duke) INSTALLATION See INSTALL for detailed instructions. If you want to use abook with mutt you should add following line to your ~/.muttrc or to the systemwide /etc/Muttrc file. set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'" After this you can make queries from mutt using the query command ( Q ). NOTES If your language specific characters doesn't work correctly make sure that your locale configuration has been done properly. (On Linux you must set at least LC_CTYPE environment variable) If you want to import a ldif file generated by abook in Netscape you must use the extension ``.4ld''. OBTAINING ABOOK Get the latest version from http://abook.sourceforge.net/ LICENSE All files in this distribution are released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. See COPYING for details. CONTACT AUTHOR Send bugreports, fixes, wishes etc. to Jaakko Heinonen or preferably use the mailing list. (See http://abook.sourceforge.net/ for details)