Subject: Weird Request-- Please do not laugh :)

From: [email-masked] (Michael J Maggio)
Date: 14 Jul 1995 22:03:52 GMT

I and my co-workers are coming off of a CMS system where, if anyone is familiar
with it, we have something called a "names file" which is where nicknames are
stored, email address, and a name, much like the .addressbook for pine.

We are wondering now if there exists such a program that will translate our	old crummy names file to the lean and mean pine addressbook format.

Here is an excerpt of part in the names file:

:nick.MJM      :userid.U29263   :node.uicvm     
               :name.Michael Maggio             

And this would be translated to:

MJM<tab>Maggio, Michael<tab>u29263@uicvm

I am sure if we were spared the expense of retyping 150 names we can simply
edit the hostname if they're outside our domain...

If anyone has information, either email me or post back to the group.

Thank you very much in advance!

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