> >
> > 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
