Re: flat file conversion tools?

[Gary.Downing@Eng (Gary Downing)]

Dan,

I would suggest that you do the flat file to database conversion
on your desktop prior to placing it on your Pilot.  The Pilot
comes with Pilot Desktop software to help you here, then you
can simply do a Hot Sync to your Pilot.

If Pilot Desktop isn't flexible enough (as I found out), you
can use another more powerful contact manager such as Now Contact
to get your information into a fixed field format that you
can export to Pilot Desktop.

Gary Downing
Sun Microsystems
JavaSoft Division
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Palo Alto, CA 94303

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Email:   gary.downing@xxxxxxx


> From dans@xxxxxxx Fri Sep 19 13:35:34 1997
> From: Dan Simoes <dans@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: tool?
> To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (pilot)
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 10:21:41 -0400 (EDT)
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> Before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd check since I've
> seen some bits of perl floating around here.
> 
> I currently store all my phone numbers and other info in a 
> flat text file, and use a script I wrote in ksh to search 
> and update it.
> 
> I've got about 600 numbers in this file, so I'd rather not import
> it to the pilot as a flat file.  Rather, I'd like to migrate from
> what I'm using to something that is compatible with the pilot
> address book, maybe using dbm or something.
> 
> So, does this sound remotely familiar?  What do the rest of you
> unix geeks use to keep track of phone numbers? :)
> 
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