Subject: Creating address lists outside of pine

From: [email-masked] (Dan Canfield)
Date: 23 Jun 1995 16:06:44 -0600

I want to create a mailing list in pine, but I'd like to be able to
edit the address file outside of pine with say vi.  I've got a file that
contains the email address for about 50 people.  I tried bringing those
addresses into .addressbook using vi and encasing them in () with each
seperated with commas.

I do this and then save .addressbook.  When I enter the address book
in pine I get a message that .addressbook.lu is invalid and I am assuming
it gets rebuilt.  However, the addresses are all jumbled up and can't be
used.

Ideas?  Is there a limit to the size of a mailing and is it possible to
edit the .addressbook in this way.  I was able to add a single alias
address using vi, but it croked on the mailing list try.

Dan Canfield
[email-masked]

89 Indy 707
89 FJ1200
RP90

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From: "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 22:16:00 -0400

The adressess indeed need to be in a comma-separated list enclosed in () 
- one important thing is to precede it with two TABs, because the format is:

<Nickname>^I<Full name>^I(<list>) 

 The other tricky thing is that several hundred characters can be 
squeezed into a line, but if that's got too many than Pine mangles it. You 
can break it down into many lines, but the continuing ones have to start 
with a space!

 You can eliminate Pine's complaint about the lookup file (and its 
possible mangling the book while trying to rebuild it) by just deleting 
the .addressbook.lu file after editing .addressbook!

 Zoli [email-masked] (note my old full address @bcuxs2 is retired)
"For my assured failures and derelictions, I ask pardon beforehand of my
betters and my equals in my calling." - Rudyard Kipling

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From: [email-masked] (Doug Johnson)
Date: 25 Jun 1995 03:34:19 GMT

Dan Canfield ([email-masked]) wrote:
% I want to create a mailing list in pine, but I'd like to be able to
% edit the address file outside of pine with say vi.  I've got a file that
% contains the email address for about 50 people.  I tried bringing those
% addresses into .addressbook using vi and encasing them in () with each
% seperated with commas.

% I do this and then save .addressbook.  When I enter the address book
% in pine I get a message that .addressbook.lu is invalid and I am assuming
% it gets rebuilt.  However, the addresses are all jumbled up and can't be
% used.

% Ideas?  Is there a limit to the size of a mailing and is it possible to
% edit the .addressbook in this way.  I was able to add a single alias
% address using vi, but it croked on the mailing list try.

% Dan Canfield
% [email-masked]

% 89 Indy 707
% 89 FJ1200
% RP90

Dan,

I did this and it does work!  I think part of your problem is you don't
know the format being used in the addressbook.  I created one entry and
then vi the addressbook.  I found each field (3) were seperated by a 
tab.  So I read my addressbook in, changed it to the format used by
addressbook and then saved.  I then did a sort on the addressbook just
for personal desire.  It worked fine.  All the e-mail address I have
been keeping on my pc have been intergrated into my addressbook on my
ISP's box.

Doug
[email-masked]
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    WHAT WERE THEY DOING?
    HOW MANY OF THEM WERE THERE?
    I NEED TO FIND THEM, I'M THEIR LEADER!