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 has been compiled and tested
-successfully on following platforms: (NOTE: All versions of abook haven't
-been tested on all platforms.)
-
-Linux (Debian GNU/Linux 2.1/2.2, RedHat 6.x)
-Solaris 2.4
-Solaris 2.5
-Solaris 2.6
-FreeBSD 3.3 (newer versions should work)
+To compile abook you must have ncurses development libraries installed.
+Starting from version 0.4.10 abook is known to compile with the native curses
+library of SUN Solaris and OpenBSD. Since version 0.5.0 GNU readline is
+required. Please note that other readline implementations don't work.
+
+If you compile with --enable-debug flag you should redirect standard error
+to somewhere. (for example abook 2> debug or abook 2> /dev/null) Abook has
+been compiled and tested successfully on following platforms:
+(NOTE: All versions of abook haven't been tested on all platforms.)
+
+Linux (distributions with moderately new GNU ncurses and GNU readline libraries
+ should work)
+Darwin
+Solaris
+FreeBSD
OpenBSD
-NetBSD (reportedly requires ncurses to work properly)
+NetBSD
+GNU/Hurd
AIX 3.2.5
HPUX
Irix 6.5
and add sender e-mail addresses to the addressbook from pager using 'A'
command. (Of course you can choose another keybinding if you like.)
+It's also recommended to set pipe_decode variable in mutt configuration.
+See the mutt manual for details.
+
+Abook can also convert from/to mutt alias files and a number of other formats.
+Mutt groups are fully supported.
+
+UPGRADING FROM VERSION 0.5
+
+See RELEASE_NOTES .
+
+UPGRADING FROM VERSION 0.4
+
+You must import your abook 0.4 addressbook file because it is stored
+to a different location. Configuration file is now located to $HOME/.abook/
+directory and it's called abookrc . (without leading dot)
+
NOTES
If your language specific characters don't work correctly make sure
All files in this distribution are released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
See COPYING for details.
-CONTACT AUTHOR
+CONTACT AUTHORS
-Send bugreports, fixes, wishes etc. to Jaakko Heinonen
-<jheinonen@users.sourceforge.net> or preferably use the mailing list. (See
-http://abook.sourceforge.net/ for details)
+Send bugreports, fixes, wishes etc. to abook mailing list:
+https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/abook-devel