I would like to load my address book in a stand alone mode as can be done with the windows address book

I use it as my main address book and would like to be able to call it up for use in other applications

I don't see a stand alone progrm that loads ABD files so I assume it is a function of THEBAT.EXE.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but if that IS the case what would be the command line syntax for loading the address book only?