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.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org>
.\"
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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 ADDRESS 1 "February 26, 1998" "Addressbook" "Tk Applications"
.SH NAME
address, 
addr-tel, 
addr-email, 
addr-fax, 
addr-letter, 
addr-birthday
\- Fast access to 
.B addressbook
database
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B addr-address
.RI [ options "] " person
.br
.B addr-tel
.RI [ options "] " person
.br
.B addr-email
.RI [ options "] " person
.br
.B addr-fax
.RI [ options "] " person
.br
.B addr-letter
.RI [ options "] " person
.br
.B addr-birthday
.RI [ options "] " person
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B address
is a program to provide light-weight access to the
.B addressbook
database.

.B addr-tel
prints all known phone numbers of a person.

.B addr-email
prints the email address for a person.

.B addr-fax
print the fax number for person.

.B addr-letter
prints the address for a person as you would write it on a letter.

.B addr-birthday
prints the person's birthday.

Note that the program will match all the people matching the substring
.IR person .
Multiple substrings are not supported.
.SH OPTIONS
All programs take the same options.
.TP
.B -s
Short form, prints only the matching data, not the person or people
that matched.
.TP
.B -l
Long form, prints the matching person or people as well as the
requested data.
.TP
.BI "-f " name
Output the data found in the field named
.IR name .
.TP
.BI "-n " number
Output the data found in the field numbered
.IR number ,
which tends to be extremely fast.
.TP
.BI "-a " file
Search the addressfile
.I addrfile
rather than the default address file.
.TP
.BI "-c " file
Read configuration from the file
.I file
rather than the default configuration file.
.TP
.BI "-ld " dir
Use the directory
.I dir
to as the library dir instead of the default.
.TP
.BI "-db " number
Set the debug level to 
.IR number .
.SH ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the behavior of
.BR address :
.TP
.B ADDRBOOK_ADDRFILE
Sets the address file, same effect as the option
.B \-a
above.
.TP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR addressbook (1)