Subject: Misleading text in addrbook.c

From: Jos Vos <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 17:36:04 MET

When adding a new entry in the addres book, you get the text

	New full name (last, first) :

I think it's better to let the text be:

	New full name (First Last) :

Because we don't really want a "," in the registered full name.

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*** pine/addrbook.c-	Thu Oct 21 16:32:23 1993
--- pine/addrbook.c	Thu Oct 21 16:36:07 1993
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*** 1748,1754 ****
      oe_append = 0;
      do {
  	char *q;
!         prompt = "New full name (last, first) : ";
          rc = optionally_enter(new_name, command_line, 0, MAX_FULLNAME,
                                 oe_append, 0, prompt, NULL, help, 0);
          oe_append = 1;
--- 1748,1754 ----
      oe_append = 0;
      do {
  	char *q;
!         prompt = "New full name (First Last) : ";
          rc = optionally_enter(new_name, command_line, 0, MAX_FULLNAME,
                                 oe_append, 0, prompt, NULL, help, 0);
          oe_append = 1;
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From: Highway 'Nakoruru' YAH! <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 16:40:12 -0400 (EDT)

I don't think it matters to have in the address book menu
(first last) instead of (last, first).  The only difference
is that you have to manually type in the comma.

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From: Highway 'Nakoruru' YAH! <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1993 16:45:16 -0400 (EDT)

> Because we don't really want a "," in the registered full name.

Also, "," doesn't show up ie:

	New full name (last, first) : Doe, John

cause when you type the nickname in the To: field, it comes out as:

	To: John Doe <userid_address>

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From: Jos Vos <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 93 09:23:49 MET

> 	To: John Doe <userid_address>

Sorry!  I really thought I'd seen a "," appearing somewhere (maybe
that was in 3.07, which I looked at quickly before moving to 3.87).

It's still questionable whether it makes sense to ask someone to
type in a name in the format "last, first".  Is that a natural way
in the U.S.?  Here the "first last" format is more natural
(in France the format "LAST first" seems to be the default :-)).

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 08:49:11 -0700 (PDT)

The reason we use "Last, First" is that we sort the addressbook by the 
full name field.  This format makes it easy to get the entries in order 
by last name.  

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