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)
+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.
+
+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 (Debian GNU/Linux, RedHat Linux, all other distributions with GNU ncurses
+ and GNU readline should work)
+Darwin
+Solaris
+FreeBSD
OpenBSD
NetBSD (reportedly requires ncurses to work properly)
+GNU/Hurd
AIX 3.2.5
HPUX
Irix 6.5
See INSTALL for detailed instructions.
-If you want to use abook with mutt you should add following line to your
+If you want to use abook with mutt you should add following lines to your
~/.muttrc or to the systemwide /etc/Muttrc file.
set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"
+macro pager A |'abook --add-email'\n
-After this you can make queries from mutt using the query command ( Q ).
+After this you can make queries from mutt using the query command ('Q')
+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 recommeded to set pipe_decode variable in mutt configuration.
+See the mutt manual for details.
+
+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 doesn't work correctly make sure
+If your language specific characters don't work correctly make sure
that your locale configuration has been done properly. (On Linux you
must set at least LC_CTYPE environment variable)
CONTACT AUTHOR
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)
+<jheinonen@users.sourceforge.net> or use the mailing list.