addressbook1

Usage

Overview

addressbook is a program to manage your addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and everything which is now written in your rolodex. addressbook is copyrighted by Clemens Durka, but available under the GNU GPL.

This manual page documents the options accepted by addressbook, but does not provide complete documentation for the application. To read the complete manual, run addressbook and select MANUAL under the Help menu.

Options

Generally you will not need to use options since they are stored in your configuration files (see CONFIGURATION FILES below).

-a file

-addrfile file

Supply the path to an alternate addressfile file to load instead of the default.

-c file

-configfile file

Supply the path to an alternate configuration file file to read instead of the default.

-hlp

Show the usage message.

-iconic

Start as an icon. Useful if started automatically with the window manager.

-lg lang

-language lang

Use the language lang instead of the default.

-ld dir

-libdir dir

Use the directory dir to as the library dir instead of the default. addressbook looks for bitmaps, language data, etc., in this location.

-l

-lock

Try to lock the addressfile. This is the default; it prevents multiple copies of the software from writing to the same file.

-ro

Open address file read-only and do not try to lock it.

-db number

-debug number

Set the debug level to number.

Environment

The following environment variables affect the behavior of addressbook:

ADDRBOOK_LIBDIR

Sets the library directory, same effect as the option -ld above.

ADDRBOOK_ADDRFILE

Sets the address file, same effect as the option -a above.

ADDRBOOK_CONFIG

Sets the configuration file to be used by addressbook, same as the option -c above.