On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Jostein Berntsen <jber...@broadpark.no> wrote:
>> >
>> > You can check in ~/.abook/abookrc if you have your index_format variable
>> > correctly set. F.ex. mine has this setting to show the fields I want in
>> > the abook interface:
>> >
>> > set index_format=" {name:25} {email:30} {nick:5} {workphone:-12}
>> > {mobile:-12} {title:20} {notes} "
>> >
>> >
>> > Jostein
>> >
>>
>> Thanks Jostein. I checked my .abook directory on Slackware and Debian
>> and don't have an abookrc in either system. I'll look into building
>> one or downloading one from the net.
>> I was thinking that I would have to try mysql even though I don't know
>> a thing about it.
>>
>> b
>>
>
> If you do "man abookrc" on your Slackware box you will find a sample
> configuration file for .abookrc in the last section. Just copy this
> section to a new file in ~/.abook/abookrc and configure this.
>
>
> Jostein
>Thanks again. Used abook for a very long time and this is the first I read about abookrc! Found the man page. That should fix the problem.
