Addressbook

© 1995, 1996, 1997 Clemens Durka
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Latest version of this page at: http://addressbook.home.pages.de/

News about Addressbook?

Addressbook 0.7 has been released the 02.11.1997. Since then, more languages were added, you can get them in the update section.

What is Addressbook?

Addressbook is a program to manage your addresses, phone numbers, e-mailaddresses 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 the program?

The latest release is here addressbook-0.7.tar.gz (153 kB)

The last public release is available at the following sites: ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/local/apps/addressbook-[version].tar.gz ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xapps/rolodex/addressbook-[version].tar.gz ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/tcl/code/addressbook-[version].tar.gz

UPDATES - New things that did't make it in the last version.

The following things weren't yet integrated in the last version 0.7. If you want, you can get them here and try them out. Put the files in the lib directory.

  • new czech translation:czech.translation czech.helptext
  • updated italian translation:italian.translation italian.helptext
  • updated finnish translation:finnish.translation finnish.helptext
  • new norwegian translation:norwegian.translation norwegian.helptext
  • new danish translation:danish.translation danish.helptext

    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
  • Multi language support (now english, german, french, dutch, swedish, finnish)
  • All the addresses are displayed in a listbox
  • The actual address can be edited in a form
  • 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 phonenumber by pressing a button)
  • Standalone perl program for fast search without GUI

    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 should run under any version from tcl7.3/tk3.6 to the actual version (tcl7.6 / tk4.2).

    This program is tested under:

  • Linux 1.2.13 (i586) Tcl7.3/Tk3.6 from Slackware 2.3
  • Linux 1.2.13 (i586) Tcl7.4/Tk4.0 from Slackware 3.0
  • Linux 2.0.29 (i586) Tcl7.6/Tk4.2 from Debian 1.3
  • HPUX 9.0x (HP 7xx)

    It is reported to work as well under:

  • HPUX 10.x (HP 7xx)
  • SunOS 4.x.x (Sun Sparc)
  • Solaris 2.4 (Sun Sparc)
  • OSF/1 3.0 (DEC Alpha)
  • AIX 3.2 (IBM Power Risc)
  • Irix 5.3 (SGI)

    It is included in:

  • SuSE Linux

    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 at luna.nl) for the translation to dutch and to Stephen Mueller (stephen at sei.com) for testing and finding bugs. Thanks to Martin Paul (Martin.Paul at par.univie.ac.at) for contributing the mktable program for better printing. Thanks to all the translators for finnish (Jarmo Karvonen), swedish (Peter Antman), italian (Andrea Borgia), danish and norwegian (Vidar Jon Bauge).

    Clemens Durka, 08.05.2002