

'Phonelist' is a very quick and short program to find out
your most-needed phone-numbers and is designed to work under
'Workbench' and 'CLI' control.
The program searches the env-var 'PL_FILES' to locate the
database, so be shure to have this variable set !


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Capabilities in general :

	- search for a record/number by name
	  ( no wildcards needed ! )

	- add a new record

	- delete a record

	- generate a list of all records ( sorted alpha. )

	- reorganize the PL - Database
	  ( needed after deleting a record to save disk-space ! )

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Installation

You should use the installation-script 'install-pl' from Workbench
to make shure that all needed stuff is available.


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Commandline options


	-s   search for an entry

		  eg. 						 pl -s fish


	-a   add new record

		  eg. 						 pl -a "fish, fred"	001345

		  If name or number contain 'spaces', use '"' to delimit
		  the string.

	-d   delete a record

		  eg. 						 pl -d "fish, fred"

		  name - arg and key must match !

	-l   generate a list of all records

										 pl -l

		  lists may be redirected to prn !

										 pl >prn: -l

	-r   reorganize database

										 pl -r

	-i   interactive

		  if you like to use gadgets and a window to obtain information.


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Workbench usage

Just double-click on the pl-icon.



