Subject: [Q] Using Pine's .addressbook in Elm

From: [email-masked] (Lee Bailey)
Date: 9 Dec 1994 12:33:54 -0800

I am looking for an easy way to keep an Elm alias file up to date with 
Pine's .addressbook. Preferabliy something that would always run at 
logout time (in case I added any nicknames in Pine).

I have seen a script that will do the reverse (alias.text >> 
.addressbook) but not what I'm looking for. I could prbably rewrite it to 
go the other way, but then I only have the alias.text, I still need to 
convert it to the native format for Elm to use. Will the program 
'newaliases' do this? I could call the program at the end of the script.

Any other suggestions or help would be appreciated. 

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From: Brent Blumenstein <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 06:51:47 -0800 (PST)

I have a script that goes both ways.  Two potential problems for you:  

(1) It was written some time ago, when I was using pine 3.87 and an
earlier version of elm - sorry I don't remember the elm version. 
Therefore, if the formats have changed then the script may be obsolete.  I
have not used this script recently. 

(2) It is written in uniRexx, which is a wonderful language, but
unfortuantely not commonly available in the Unix world because it costs
extra $ and duplicates functionality of Unix shell languages, though in my
opinion Rexx is more elegant; Rexx is a scripting language.  But the real
advantage of Res is that works on many platforms, including IBM mainframes
of several types, DOS, OS/2 (it is part of OS/2), Amiga, numerous Unix
versions, and I now hear there will be an NT version.  I think IBM now 
sells a version of Rexx specific to AIX (in addition to the 
multi-platform Unix commercial product).

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From: [email-masked] (Vbhalla)
Date: 10 Dec 1994 17:17:06 -0500

Lee Bailey ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have seen a script that will do the reverse (alias.text >> 
: .addressbook) but not what I'm looking for. I could prbably rewrite it to 
: go the other way, but then I only have the alias.text, I still need to 
: convert it to the native format for Elm to use. Will the program 
: 'newaliases' do this? I could call the program at the end of the script.

The whole purpose of the newalais command is to update Elm native formats by
reading the aliases.text file and updating them.
So sure go ahead and run th newalias command at the end of the script.

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