Subject: address books

From: Mary Aplin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 13:55:50 +0100 (MET)

Hello --
I recently installed pine on an DEC Alpha 3300 running OSF.  It works 
great, but now I want to set up a site-wide address book.  

I cannot find the file pine.conf on my system.  I guess I don't have one 
(I haven't done any customization until now.)  I'm looking for a sample 
of pine.conf, particularly the global-address-book variable.

Also, does the global-address file have to be of a particular format?
Would anyone have a sample they would be willing to share??

Thanks!
Mary Aplin
Academic Computing Services
Loyola University, New Orleans
[email-masked]

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From: Pierre Thibaudeau <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 15:18:06 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 6 Dec 1994, Mary Aplin wrote:

[...]
> of pine.conf, particularly the global-address-book variable.
[...]

You should first build the pine.conf file using pine itself:
     pine -conf >/usr/lib/pine.conf
After that, you will be able to start customizing it to suit your needs.

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 22:31:19 -0800 (PST)

Usually you should put the pine.conf file in /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.  
The global-address-book line looks just like an address-book line in a 
.pinerc file, for example, it might say

global-address-book=/usr/local/lib/abook     or

global-address-book=Global Address Book /usr/local/lib/abook

The file itself is a standard pine address book.  For example, you could 
create it by copying your own .addressbook to that file.  You'll probably 
want to come up with a better way to do that than copying your own 
address book.  The format of the address book is discussed in the 
technical notes in the doc directory of the source distribution.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle