Subject: Address books

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 07:55:50

I am installing Pine v3.95 under AIX/UNIX v3.2.5 and am trying to 
     create a global address book of our users.
     
     If I use the UNIX "vi" editor to look at the .addressbook file I 
     create inside of Pine, the file contains the following characters:
          nickname TAB username TAB address NEWLINE
     
     where "TAB" is the tab key, and NEWLINE is the end of the entry.
     
     However, if I create this same file by hand in the "vi" editor, or if 
     I build it from an existing list of users, the .addressbook does NOT 
     function the same way.  Pine refuses to properly call up a given user 
     if that username is defined in the "manually-created" method.
     
     What happens inside of Pine when I select one of these addresses is 
     that the Pine screen simply redisplays without having called up the 
     address into the "TO:" field.
     
     Am I missing something?  Why won't Pine accept an addressbook file 
     that I have created myself outside of Pine?
     
     - Michael
     
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From: Vladimír Solnický {Vladimir Solnicky} <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:24:33 +0200 (METDST)

>      where "TAB" is the tab key, and NEWLINE is the end of the entry.

I do not think you are right. Try the following structure:

nickname TAB username TAB address TAB fcc TAB comment NEWLINE

You may leave the last two empty but include tha TAB separators (i.e.
every line contains (at least) four TAB's.

>      if that username is defined in the "manually-created" method.

[...]

>      that I have created myself outside of Pine?

I think it should work now (we use script creating a global addressbook
from our password file).

Regards,

V. S.

Vladimír Solnický, ÚTIA AV ČR, Pod vodárenskou věží 4,
182 08 Praha 8-Libeň, +42 2 6605/2364, telefax: +42 2 6884677,
[email-masked], http://www.utia.cas.cz/vs/vs-home-cz.html