2 ABOOK by JH <jheinonen@bigfoot.com>
5 Abook is an addressbook program with mutt mail client support.
9 To compile abook you must have ncurses developement libraries installed.
10 Starting from version 0.4.10 abook is know to compile with the native curses
11 library of SUN Solaris and OpenBSD.
13 If you compile with --enable-debug flag you should run abook like this:
14 abook 2> debug or abook 2> /dev/null. Abook has been compiled and tested
15 successfully on following platforms: (NOTE: All versions of abook haven't
16 been tested on all platforms.)
18 Linux (Debian GNU/Linux 2.1/2.2, RedHat 6.x)
22 FreeBSD 3.3 (newer versions should work)
24 NetBSD (reportedly requires ncurses to work properly)
32 See INSTALL for detailed instructions.
34 If you want to use abook with mutt you should add following line to your
35 ~/.muttrc or to the systemwide /etc/Muttrc file.
37 set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"
39 After this you can make queries from mutt using the query command ( Q ).
43 If your language specific characters doesn't work correctly make sure
44 that your locale configuration has been done properly. (On Linux you
45 must set at least LC_CTYPE environment variable)
47 If you want to import a ldif file generated by abook in Netscape you
48 must use the extension ``.4ld''.
52 Get the latest version from http://abook.sourceforge.net/
56 All files in this distribution are released under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
57 See COPYING for details.
61 Send bugreports, fixes, wishes etc. to Jaakko Heinonen <jheinonen@bigfoot.com>
62 or preferably use the mailing list. (See http://abook.sourceforge.net/ for