Subject: Re: Address file location?

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:51:36 -0500

On 10 Mar 1996, Richard E. Freeman wrote:

> How do you back up the address file? I can't find its physical location 
> so as to copy it.

    These remarks apply *only* if you are running Unix Pine.  Change to
your home directory and enter  ls -l .add*  .  Your should see a file
called .addressbook and possibly one called .addressbook.lu , which is
an index file to make the addressbook function more efficient.  Because
these file names begin with a period, you do not see them in an
ordinaty listing.

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From: [email-masked] (DearOldDad)
Date: 11 Mar 1996 17:23:23 GMT

Richard E. Freeman ([email-masked]) wrote:
: How do you back up the address file? I can't find its physical location 
: so as to copy it.

It's a file in your home directory, the filename is '.addressbook'   
Don't forget the . in front!   Hope this helps.  BYE.

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From: [email-masked] (Richard E. Freeman)
Date: 10 Mar 1996 18:14:26 GMT

Thanks,

Rich Freeman

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From: [email-masked] (Stephen J. Weihman)
Date: 12 Mar 1996 14:13:07 GMT

>How do you back up the address file? I can't find its physical location 

On Unix systems, it's normally in your home directory.  Look for
.addressbook and .addressbook.lu there.  To verify the location, from 
the Pine main menu, select Setup/Config.  There should be an entry for
address-book.

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