Subject: how to merge two address books?

From: [email-masked] (Jungshik Shin)
Date: 23 May 1996 23:52:10 GMT

A friend of mine is graduating this month and is moving
to Berkeley where her husband studies. She wants to 
keep her address book. She has to use her husband's 
account there for e-mail.  Her husband may or may not
use Pine. If the former is the case, she needs to
merge two address books, hers and his. Is there any
way to merge two address books? Does  concatenating
two of them with cat work ? How about address book
index files? 
 
  Well, I'm aware of the way to keep two separate 
address books with two separate .pinerc, but
it's too much headache to her. 

  I would greatly appreciate any help with this
problem.

     Jungshik

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:41:22 -0700 (PDT)

On 23 May 1996, Jungshik Shin wrote:

> Does  concatenating

Yes, concatenating should work.  Save a copy of the originals and try it
to see if you like the results.  The index file will fix itself when you
use the new address book.
 
> it's too much headache to her. 

I would think that the best solution would be to have two address books
defined and keep them separate.  You don't need two separate .pinerc
files, just two address books in one pinerc.  See the address-book entry
in the Config screen.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle