Subject: Want an easy way to edit address book.

From: Chenhui Feng <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 19:14:23 -0400

Hi, 

I think I've read similar questions before, but I can't remember the 
answer. I really want to know if there is an easier way to maintain my 
address book. Say, I have a file with a bunch of e-mail address in it, 
how can I add them into my address book? Using editor doesn't work. It 
seems the address book for 'pine' has some special format not just
plain text. Also if I want to add someone's address to an existing list, 
what else can I do instead of typing them one by one?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Chen

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 23:42:38 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, Chenhui Feng wrote:

> plain text.

The format of the address book is given in the technical notes which are 
in the doc directory of the source distribution.  Your problem is 
probably caused by the fact that the fields are separated by a single TAB 
character, not by spaces.

>             Also if I want to add someone's address to an existing list, 

If the address is a header of a message you're viewing you can use the 
TakeAddress command.  Go into ListMode, do the Take, and type the 
nickname of the list.  (If there is only one address in the message Pine 
tries to "optimize" the number of keystrokes you need to use and will 
skip straight to adding a new entry to the address book, which isn't what 
you want in this case.  You can work around that by first Selecting the 
message and then doing an Apply Take, which goes into ListMode.  3.92 
won't have this oddity.)  If the address you want to add is just another 
entry in the address book there is nothing you can do other than to use 
the Z command to add to the list.  You can type the nickname rather than 
the full address, though.  3.92 will have the capability of Taking an 
address from the addressbook and adding it to a list in the addressbook, 
saving you the typing.  Hope this answers your questions.

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