Subject: converting to remote addressbooks in pc-pine

From: Catherine Hernandez <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:41:33 -0400 (EDT)

In making the attempt to convert my local addressbook to a remote
addressbook, I have carefully followed this procedure, as outline in
pine-help:

(The purpose being to get the local addressbook from pc-pine to reside on
the imap server in a readable format.)

 Converting to Remote.
	The easiest way to convert an existing local address book into a
	remote address book is to create an empty new remote address book
	with the "Add Abook" command. If you only have one address book
	currently you will have to do the "Add Abook" command from the
	SETUP Addressbook screen. After you have added the empty remote 
	address book, go into the screen for the address book you wish to
	copy and "Select" "All". This selects every entry
	in that address book. Then type the command "Apply Kopy" (actually 
	you just type "A" followed by "K", not the whole name of the
	command). You will be asked for the address book to copy to. You
	may use ^P and ^N to get to the new empty address book, then hit
	RETURN and the addresses will be copied.
		
Making the empty addressbook was simple, and selecting the current book's
contents....But I have been unsuccessful at making the "Kopy".  That is
not an option with "apply" in the addressbook.  Other mechanisms I have
used to "copy" or "write" the contents have produced, predictably,
unreadable results.

Any advice you can provide would be most appreciated.

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Catherine Hernandez					Sr Prog Analyst
Florida International University			AUL Manager
School of Computer Science				305-348-2739 (v)
Miami Florida, 33199					305-348-2336 (f)

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From: Michael Ruder <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:59:27 -0600 (MDT)

Hi,

<> Making the empty addressbook was simple, and selecting the current book's
<> contents....But I have been unsuccessful at making the "Kopy".  That is
<> not an option with "apply" in the addressbook.  Other mechanisms I have
<> used to "copy" or "write" the contents have produced, predictably,
<> unreadable results.
<> 
<> Any advice you can provide would be most appreciated.

Actually, the name of the command is not "kopy" it's "save". So you type
the ";" then "A" to select all entries in your OLD addressbook. Then you
type "A" for apply (you find the command listed in the bottom after typing
"O" for other commands) and after that "S". You can then select between
exporting the selected entries or saving it to an addressbook. You select
the latter one and finally you can select the target addressbook and
everything (at least it should) works fine.

       -Michael

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From: Catherine Hernandez <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:02:50 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks.  This worked.  I did determine, however that if this process
fails...(As it did for me due to trouble with the target addressbook
file...) that one must "quit" pine and re-enter in order to successfully
see the addressbooks in the list.  I had tried this earlier, in fact, was
was tripped up by this behaviour.

Thanks again.  Cath