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.