Address Book Utility Database

Looking to an App to print selected fields of ones address book.
Sort of like a database listing where you can select the fields you need, type face, position on the page etc etc. (Like I used to do with Appleworks Database)
-Sandy

Thanks for the reply!..
Yeah, I've seen LBDB before. It's too bulky as a command line tool just to access the Address Book database. It's a great tool, don't get me wrong; however, it does WAY more than just access the Address Book database.
I did find a CLI tool to access the Address Book database:
http://theocacao.com/document.page/210
It's not exactly what I'm looking for (it's very limited), but the source is included and is really simple, so I may just work with it.
Are there any other more robust CLI tools for directly querying the Address Book database?

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Folders You Can Move to Your new Mac
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/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
Also in /Home/Library/Application Support (copy whatever else you need including folders for any third-party applications)
/Home/Library/Keychains (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Mail (copy the whole folder)
/Home/Library/Preferences/ (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/iTunes (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
/Home /Library/Calendars (copy the whole folder)
If you want cookies:
/Home/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
For Entourage users:
Entourage is in /Home/Documents/Microsoft User Data
Also in /Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
For FireFox:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/FireFox
/Home/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
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Post relates to: Visor Deluxe

Thanks for the speedy response. However, I read the article for which you provided the link, and I hve also read many other articles that I found via search, but I don't think these will help me. All of these articles seem to assume that (1) you have a handheld to which you can sync and thereby rebuild the database on the PC, or (2) you have a backup that you created via the Palm Desktop export function. Unfortunately, I have neither and so I don't think any of these solutions will work for me.
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