Subject: Distribution Lists in Addressbook

From: [email-masked] (Errol Porter)
Date: 12 May 1995 08:15:32 -0400

What is the format (ie, syntax) for Distribution Lists?  Is a comma required
after each entry?  Can you only put one entry per line?

I have tried adding a large number of entries from a file directly into 
".addressbook".  When I went to "compose" in Pine so send a message to list,
a message appeared that I did not have commas (I had commas after each
entry).

Any advice would be most welcome.  Thanks

-- 
Errol Porter
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From: "Paul O. Bartlett" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 11:57:49 -0400

On 12 May 1995, Errol Porter wrote:

> Date: 12 MAY 1995 08:15:32 -0400 
> From: Errol Porter <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Distribution Lists in Addressbook 
> 
> [...]

    Sorry that I don't have a specific answer for your problem.  So far I 
have not needed to take the time to discover tha exact internal format 
of the .addressbook file (Unix flavor).  One possiblity could be that 
Pine manages .addressbook entries with some non-displaying white space 
characters, most notably TAB.  (This may or may not be so.)  If you have 
access to an editor that can display a file or file lines in hexadecimal, 
that could show you whether you have some non-displaying characters 
separating the file fields.  (TAB has the ASCII value 9; sometimes it can 
be entered with a Ctrl-I, depending on the editor.)

Paul
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