Re: FW: [Pilot-Unix] Import custom phone book

[Peter Eriksson <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 Apr, Bharat Mediratta wrote:
> 
> This looks interesting...
>
>>    I maintained a phone book in a text file on my UNIX machine in the 
>>past many years. Now I would like to import them into my PalmPilot. 
> 
> Have a look at http://linux.in-berlin.de/pia/
> 
> There you find my GUI X11-frontend for address databases from the Palm 
> Pilot. It's known to run  on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD and maybe 
> many other Unices. 
> 
> It can import CSV data in the format like the one of "pilot-addresses" 
> (from pilot-link). You have to convert your format with a script of your
> 
> own to the one of "pilot-addresses" first.

Yes, it looks interresting, but it's not exactly bug free...'

I just managed to compile it on Solaris after a couple of hours
of work with it, just to find that the code that loads the CSV files
is buggy.. (

It hangs in a loop if you try to load the CSV file that the PilotMgr
Address book conduit creates - it looks like the code in pi-address
doesn't correctly look for End of file when parsing the file.

(It also expects all the fields in the CSV file to be surrounded by
'"' characters).

But it should be possible to hack it so that it works.

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Peter Eriksson <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>         Computer Systems Manager/BOFH
WWW: http://www.ifm.liu.se/~peter/                 Phone: +46 13 282786 
Linköping University, Department of Physics, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden

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