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 gaby(1)                                                             gaby(1)
                              Gaby Manual Pages



 NAME
      gaby - small personal databases manager

 SYNOPSIS
      gaby [ --as name ] [ --version ] [

 DESCRIPTION
      Gaby is a _small_ personal databases manager for Linux using GTK+
      (http://www.gtk.org) and Gnome (if available, http://www.gnome.org)
      for its GUI.

      It was designed to provide straight-forward access to databases a
      'normal' user would like (addresses, books, ...) while keeping the
      ability to easily create databases for other needs. On a technical
      side it was designed with extensibility in mind and thus use relies a
      lot on plug-ins.

 OPTIONS
      These options can be supplied to the command:

      -a, --as name
           Starts Gaby using an alternative descfile (see below).

      --disable-other-windows
           Doesn't load additional windows defined in the descfile.

      --skip-startup-actions
           Doesn't launch startup actions (standard or defined in the
           descfile).

      -V, --version
           Displays the Gaby version number and compile-time definitions.

      -h, --help
           Displays a short help message


 DESCFILES
      Simply launching Gaby will put you in an addressbook but the title
      says that Gaby is a personal databases manager, not an addressbook.
      Other kinds of databases are defined in "descfiles" (short for
      description file) located in the system configuration directory
      (usually /etc) or the user's Gaby directory (~/.gaby).

      There are two ways to use those files; you may use the --as option (as
      in gaby --as gcd ) or you may create a symlink (as in ln -s gaby
      /usr/bin/gaby ).


 SEE ALSO




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 gaby(1)                                                             gaby(1)
                              Gaby Manual Pages



      builder(1), gabyprint(1), gabyscript(1)

      A complete documentation (including user, advanced user and developer
      guides) should be available in /usr/doc/gaby/ (or where your
      particular distribution puts docs).

      There should also be a bunch of README files with useful informations.

      and the website is located at http://gaby.netpedia.net


 AUTHOR
      Frederic Peters (fpeters@swing.be)









































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