Copyright © 1996 Viêt-Tâm Luu.
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As an address book program, BlackBook maintains a database, with each record corresponding to one person. Each record can hold a person's name, birthdate, a reference to a photo of the person, two separate addresses and two phone numbers at each address, an E-mail address and a WorldWide Web homepage location. and additional notes pertaining to that record.
BlackBook's phone dialer uses the modem to dial the primary phone number at one of the two addresses in a record. Modem settings are easily configurable and most serial-based modems are supported.
BlackBook's Internet connectivity features distinguish it from other address book software. Firstly, BlackBook has the ability to launch a WorldWide Web (WWW) browser to the location specified for a person's WWW homepage. The browser to be launched may be set by the user, for compatibility with current and future WWW browsers.
Secondly, BlackBook includes an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)-based mail client that lets you send E-mail directly from BlackBook to the E-mail address specified in a record. This mailer is compliant with RFC821 and RFC822 specifications, and is fully configurable to work with most Internet services.
Best of all, BlackBook is freeware! This means that (almost) everyone is free to use it, make copies of it and give them to others, and post it for public distribution as long as this is done in a non-profit matter.