Subject: How to import a list into addressbook

From: [email-masked] (Bryan H.)
Date: 9 Jun 1996 03:13:12 GMT

In 3.91, when trying to add entries to a list, I cannot see how a file 
such as:

[email-masked],
[email-masked],
[email-masked]

...can be imported into the list.  When I try the add-to-list function, 
it seems to only want to add a single address at a time.  Am I correct?

Bryan

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From: [email-masked] (Vladimir V. Piterbarg)
Date: 8 Jun 1996 22:06:25 -0700

>it seems to only want to add a single address at a time.  Am I correct?

I once had a similar problem. What I did is wrote the list directly into the
addressbook. If you haven't changed the name, it is called .addressbook. It is 
just a plain text file, so you can edit it (with little care to preserve
the structure). Start creating list in pine, add 2 or three addresses, then
exit pine and start pico on .addressbook (or whatever you addresbook is called).
Find the place where you list starts, and include (^R in pico) your separate
file with the list you want
in there. Pay special attention to separators. Good luck

-Vladimir

PS You may want to save a copy of .addressbook before messing with it, 
just in case.

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From: [email-masked] (Bryan H.)
Date: 12 Jun 1996 20:54:23 GMT

>in there. Pay special attention to separators. Good luck

Isn't this unusually difficult, since some form of a nickname must also 
be added to each entry?

Bryan

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:51:57 -0700 (PDT)

On 12 Jun 1996, Bryan H. wrote:

> > [deleted]

Editing the actual .addressbook isn't too difficult in this case.  Each
entry in the list is just an address, and they are separated by commas.

Another way to solve this problem is to get pine 3.94 and mail yourself
the file in the body of a message.  Then the Take command will let you add
all the addresses to a list at once.  (I think this was in 3.92 and 3.93,
too, but if you're getting one of those you should get 3.94 instead.)

Steve Hubert <hubert@cac..washington.edu>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle