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List:       pine-info
Subject:    Re: Addressbook format
From:       C.Wooff () liverpool ! ac ! uk (Chris Wooff)
Date:       1993-05-26 10:09:24
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At  8:38pm on May 24,  8:38pm Laurie Cuthbert(L.G.Cuthbert@qmw.ac.uk) wrote:
> I have an MSc student who will be starting her project in July. She wishes
> to write software to convert between the different "addressbook" formats
> used by the various mail user agents we have in the dept. The idea is that
> someone should be able to use different MUAs on different machines without
> having to manually update addressbook formats.
> 
> The coming question is obvious: is the format used in the pine addressbook
> publicly available?
> 
> If she does produce anything of use (not always the case with MSc
> students!!) I will quite happily make it generally available.
> 
> Laurie Cuthbert
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I wrote a very short and simple minded shell script for converting an
elm aliases.text file to a .addressbook. It is crude but works for me
and did what I wanted.

If anyone would like a copy then email me.

Chris

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