Subject: Addressbook tech question

From: "Jason Pegg... On the Edge..." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:35:25 -0800 (PST)

I have a very specific question for anyone out there who knows something 
about Pine addressbooks, externally created distribution lists, and VMS 
(like I said, it was fairly specific).

We currently have a program that creates mail distribution lists for a 
rudimentary VMS mailing program.  This program creates simple text files 
for distribution lists.

I recently modified this program to make PINE distribution lists.  The 
form is the same as that required for a PINE addressbook distribution 
list as outlined in the Pine Web page.  When PINE reads the file, it sees 
that it has been modified by an external process (not modified, it's a 
new file), and it "fixes" it.  Unfortunately, PINE destroys it.

Has anyone out there had similar problems?  I've made sure that the new 
file is the only addressbook file, I've tried it with the addressbook-lu 
file there, I've tried it with it absent, you name it.  So if anyone has 
any ideas, please let me know.  I've had another person verify the format 
of the addressbook, so if any of you know of any little "quirks" in the 
VMS version, please let me know.  Thanks!

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Jason W. Pegg                                             Head Consultant
email: [email-masked]                          Vice Chairperson, Local ACM
       [email-masked]                      Eastern Washington University

WWW:   http://acm.ewu.edu/homepage/jason/jason.html            Phil 4:4-7
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