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.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org>
.\"
.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
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.\"
.\" This manual page was created by Adam P. Harris, giving thanks
.\" to the addressbook creator, Clemens Durka <clemens@dagobah.de>
.TH ADDRESSBOOK 1 "February 26, 1998" "Addressbook" "Tk Applications"
.SH NAME
addressbook \- Address manager written in Tk
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B addressbook
.RI [ options ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B addressbook
is a program to manage your addresses, phone numbers, e-mail
addresses and everything which is now written in your rolodex.
.B addressbook
is copyrighted by Clemens Durka, but available under the GNU GPL.
This manual page documents the options accepted by
.BR addressbook ,
but does not provide complete documentation for the application. To
read the complete manual, run
.B addressbook
and select
.I MANUAL
under the
.I Help
menu.
.SH OPTIONS
Generally you will not need to use options since they are stored in
your configuration files (see
.I "CONFIGURATION FILES"
below).
.TP
.BI "-a " file
.br
.ns
.TP
.BI "-addrfile " file
Supply the path to an alternate addressfile
.I file
to load instead of the default.
.TP
.BI "-c " file
.br
.ns
.TP
.BI "-configfile " file
Supply the path to an alternate configuration file
.I file
to read instead of the default.
.TP
.B -hlp
Show the usage message.
.TP
.B -iconic
Start as an icon. Useful if started automatically with the window
manager.
.TP
.BI "-lg " lang
.br
.ns
.TP
.BI "-language " lang
Use the language
.I lang
instead of the default.
.TP
.BI "-ld " dir
.br
.ns
.TP
.BI "-libdir " dir
Use the directory
.I dir
to as the library dir instead of the default.
.B addressbook
looks for bitmaps, language data, etc., in this location.
.TP
.B -l
.br
.ns
.TP
.B -lock
Try to lock the addressfile. This is the default; it prevents
multiple copies of the software from writing to the same file.
.TP
.B -ro
Open address file read-only and do not try to lock it.
.TP
.BI "-db " number
.br
.ns
.TP
.BI "-debug " number
Set the debug level to
.IR number .
.SH ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the behavior of
.BR addressbook :
.TP
.B ADDRBOOK_LIBDIR
Sets the library directory, same effect as the option
.B \-ld
above.
.TP
.B ADDRBOOK_ADDRFILE
Sets the address file, same effect as the option
.B \-a
above.
.TP
.B ADDRBOOK_CONFIG
Sets the configuration file to be used by
.BR addressbook ,
same as the option
.B \-c
above.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR address (1),
.BR addr-tel (1),
.BR addr-email (1),
.BR addr-fax (1),
.\" what is up with addr-birthday ?
.BR addr-birthday (1),
.BR addr-letter (1)
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