Subject: Re: elm->pine concersion aliases->addressbook entries?

From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 21 Jun 1996 19:19:39 GMT

[email-masked] (Mike Ellwood):
> Is there an easy way to convert elm alias.text entries to
> pine addressbook entries?

awk '{print $1,"=",$2,$3,"=",$4}' .addressbook | tr "," ";"

> Apologies if this is a FAQ.

It is.  It should be in the FAQs.
If it isn't then it's about time!

Sven

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From: [email-masked] (Mike Ellwood)
Date: 20 Jun 1996 20:14:54 GMT

TIA

[email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 21:41:26 -0400

On 25 Jun 1996, Sven Guckes wrote:

> [...]
> Yes, I posted this three days ago.
> Somebody put this into the FAQs!
> 
> Sven

    Regulars on this group keep seeing the same questions turn up over
and over, sometimes, as Sven notes, just days apart.  I think there
needs to be a Pine FAQ separate from the University of Washington
folks, simply because these repetitive questions don't appear (easily,
at least) in the UW docs.  Anyway, I thought part of UW's idea was that
new users could fire up Pine and use it without docs.  Nevertheless,
these questions come up.  Hence the need for a *real* FAQ (not whatever
UW might call one of their hard-to-find docs).  (But for the record,
no, I am not myself now in a good position to write and maintain such an
FAQ.)

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 25 Jun 1996 02:42:15 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>no, I am not myself now in a good position to write and maintain such an

I am sure just posting a regular (weekly, say) pointer to the FAQ at
http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/faq/ would help.
The problem now is that there is _nothing_ in the newsgroup itself.

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Stefan Kramer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:21:23 -0700 (PDT)

We are in the process of revising the Pine FAQs, and also adding a
keyword-searchable full-text index of all the documents in the Pine
Information Center (http://www.washington.edu/pine/).  This searchable
index will be independent of, and in addition to, the two (one full-text,
one subject-lines-only) for the Pine Discussion Forum archives at
http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/.  After that is implemented, a
periodic, but brief posting -- as opposed to a lengthy one with many
questions and their answers -- will go out to the Pine newsgroup/mailing
list about where and how to find answers to questions about, or related to,
Pine.  

However, no matter how extensive or accessible software documentation is
(which is not to claim that Pine's is perfect in either ;-), there
will probably always be users who prefer to ask a question to seeking an
existing answer.  A problem with the idea of the FAQ as a "shield" against
repetitive questions is that that requires the questioner to:
a) assume that his/her question has been ("frequently") asked before;
b) assume that the answer has therefore been given and archived somewhere;
c) find the location of that archive;
d) find the question, perhaps quite differently phrased, in that archive.

This is not to say that FAQs are not useful ... but more as an ad hoc
collection of wisdom that hasn't found its way into, or has no real place
in, any "formal" documentation, than as a way of deflecting repeated
questions.

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  Stefan Kramer                   [email-masked]
  Computing & Communications        University of Washington    
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On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Paul O Bartlett wrote:

# On 25 Jun 1996, Sven Guckes wrote:
# 
# > [...]
# > Yes, I posted this three days ago.
# > Somebody put this into the FAQs!
# > 
# > Sven
# 
#     Regulars on this group keep seeing the same questions turn up over
# and over, sometimes, as Sven notes, just days apart.  I think there
# needs to be a Pine FAQ separate from the University of Washington
# folks, simply because these repetitive questions don't appear (easily,
# at least) in the UW docs.  Anyway, I thought part of UW's idea was that
# new users could fire up Pine and use it without docs.  Nevertheless,
# these questions come up.  Hence the need for a *real* FAQ (not whatever
# UW might call one of their hard-to-find docs).  (But for the record,
# no, I am not myself now in a good position to write and maintain such an
# FAQ.)
# 
# Paul                             <[email-masked]>
# ----------------------------------------------------------
# Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA
# Finger, keyserver, or WWW for PGP 2.6.2 public key 
# Home Page:  URL: http://www.access.digex.net/~pobart     
# 
# 
# 

On 25 Jun 1996, Orjan Johansen wrote:

# I am sure just posting a regular (weekly, say) pointer to the FAQ at
# http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/faq/ would help.
# The problem now is that there is _nothing_ in the newsgroup itself.
#