Subject: help! - I messed up my .addressbook

From: ElectroMarine Services <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 11:18:38 -1000

To: [email-masked]
Subject: help! - I messed up my .addressbook
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
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ok - the short story....

had an PINE addressbook all setup from some time back - 

had been working with an apparently older version of pine in those days
(1.5-2 years ago) - that handled addressbook functions differently - now
have pine 3.96 on lava.net 's unix shell.

the older? vers, allowed me to paste-in addresses one at a time, just the
address - without having to input nicknames, fullnames etc. - this ver
doesn't seem to want to let me do this.

so... back to the short story....

I downloaded the .addressbook file in ascii mode via ftp and added a whole
bunch of addresses to it, following the same format  
(<[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, ....... ) and sent
it back up, overwriting what was there....

now the buggah doesn't read right, within the addressbook function of pine....

this, after spending hours putting all the new addresses into it :(

anybody got any clues as to how to go about fixing this one?

TIA

aloha
danno
http://holoholo.org/
Hawaii's First Ocean Sports Ezine - on The Wire since 2/1/95
[email-masked]

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From: Raja <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:55:42 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, ElectroMarine Services wrote:

(long story about why you're manually editing .addressbook snipped)

> it back up, overwriting what was there....

That was a mistake...overwriting.

> anybody got any clues as to how to go about fixing this one?

Take a very close look at the format of addresses that Pine makes in the
file. Emulate the format carefully.

Start by typing just one address directly into the file.