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- Short: Contact Manager, a centralised system-wide address book
- Uploader: wiz@vapor.com (Simone Tellini)
- Author: wiz@vapor.com (Simone Tellini)
- Type: comm/misc
- Version: 1.9
-
- The Contact Manager is a system address book which allows you to store all
- your favourite user information, web sites, ftp sites and IRC
- server/channels. It is designed as a replacement to the never-ending
- number of bookmarks, address books and similar GUI's that are built into
- the many different Amiga Internet and communication programs.
-
- It offers a number of features over a lot of the internal
- bookmark/addressbooks:
-
- * You can store a range of different information for one user. In the user
- section, for instance, you can include their address, email address, phone
- number, fax number, web site, ftp site and so on. All these options can be
- utilised by other software. Voyager can use the web information,
- Microdot-II can use the email address, STFax Pro can use the fax number
- and so on.
-
- * One GUI, many programs. You can store all the information you require
- within one interface. No need to worry about Microdot-II's addressbook,
- Voyager's bookmarks, STFax Pro's phonebook, AmFTP's server list etc.
-
- * Interacts with other software. Microdot-II, AmIRC, Voyager, AmFTP, STFax
- Pro, DOpus Magellan and IBrowse (all available separately) will all add
- information to the Contact Manager from within these programs. For
- example, find an email address when reading a mail within Microdot-II?
- Just click 'add to addressbook' and the email address will be added to the
- Contact Manager.
-
- Some of these programs will use the Contact Manager in additional ways.
- For instance Microdot will call the Contact Manager when you press to: or
- cc: when writing a new message.
-
- Textinput (the built in Vapor text editor that ships with Microdot-II,
- Voyager, AmIRC, STFax Pro amongst others) now supports the ability to
- insert Contact Manager information into any document. For instance, say
- you were writing a message with Microdot-II, you could insert a name,
- email address, phone number or any other Contact Manager field, directly
- into that document. You will never have to remember a friends email
- address ever again!
-
- * Groups and sub-groups. The Contact Manager allows you to create groups
- for different kinds of users/addresses. AmFTP, for instance, does not
- allow you to create groups or sub-groups within its server list, however
- this can be achieved via the Contact Manager.
-
- * Multi-user support. If you are using Genesis as your TCP/IP stack, the
- Contact Manager will support and allow multiple users within one
- interface. If there are more than one user in your house (family members),
- each user can have their own configurations (with password) so that their
- information remains private.
-
- * Plugin links. AmIRC (from v2.1) now ships with an internal Contact
- Manager plugin. This allows you to add users to the Contact Manager from
- within AmIRC (based on the current userlist), add interesting channels to
- your Contact Manager channel list and even search for entries within
- Contact Manager from within AmIRC.
-
-
- For further information, please read the accompanying documentation.
- Contact Manager is available from Vaporware, http://www.vapor.com.
-
-
- Changes in this version:
-
- 1.9 21/08/00 - Fixed possible Enforcer hit when searching.
- - Added workaround for broken MUIA_NList_Active
- (it caused the entry list to jump to the
- second item when displaying the content of
- a group).
- - Fixed CM_StartManager() being nasty when
- ENV:Vapor/CManager_path points to a valid
- directory but CManager is not there.
-
-